Court orders seizure of tax records of Benazir’s wife, daughter and Harun

A court has ordered the seizure of the income tax records of former police chief Benazir Ahmed’s wife, Zeeshan Mirza, and daughter, Tahsin Raisa Binte Benazir.

The court has also ordered the seizure of the tax documents of former chief of detective police Mohammad Harunor Rashid.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz issued the orders on Wednesday after Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Muhammad Zainul Abedin submitted three separate petitions.

Bench assistant Riaz Hossain said the court has ordered Tax Zone-20 in Dhaka to provide the records to the ACC.

On Dec 15 last year, the ACC filed four cases against Benazir, his wife, and their two daughters—Tahsin and Farheen Rishta Binte Benazir—over allegations of illegally amassing assets worth around Tk 750 million. Benazir was also named as an accused in the cases filed against his wife and daughters.

Benazir Ahmed was the first police chief in Bangladesh to have served both as commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and as director general of the Rapid Action Battalion. He retired on Sept 30, 2022.