The hearing of the writ petition filed in the High Court seeking directions to investigate the assets of 459 Bangladeshis in Dubai, the commercial capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the richest countries in the Middle East, is scheduled to be held on Sunday.
The High Court bench of Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat fixed this date for the hearing of the writ petition on Thursday afternoon. Advocate Subir Nandi Das appeared for the petition in court.
Earlier in the morning, he filed a supplementary writ petition in the High Court in the public interest seeking directions to investigate the existence of 459 Bangladeshis' wealth worth thousands of crores in Dubai.
The application was made based on a report published in a national daily titled “Thousands of properties of 459 Bangladeshis in Dubai” on Wednesday.
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), BFIU, NBR and CID have been made defendants in the writ.
The report published in the national daily claimed that Bangladeshis have invested 12 crore 23 lakh dirhams in Dubai in a span of one and a half years. In Bangladeshi currency, the amount stands at 346 crores 96 lakhs 51 thousand BDT.
(1 Dirham = 28.37 BDT).
However, many have questioned the credibility of the claim that Bangladeshis have bought most of the flats in Dubai. The report also alleges that the amount of to purchase those properties were illegally taken to Dubai.
