The High Court on Sunday ordered four agencies, including the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), to investigate about properties of 459 Bangladeshi nationals in Dubai.

The other agencies are Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and National Board of Revenue (NBR).

The HC bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat  passed the order after hearing a writ petition in this regard.

The court asked the four agencies submit the progress within a month.

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The court also issued a rule questioning why the inaction of the authorities concerned should not be declared illegal in taking action regarding the complaint of the properties of 459 Bangladeshis in Dubai.

On January 12, Advocate Subir Nandi filed the writ petition attaching a report in this regard published in a national daily.

According to the report, a huge amount of money has been transferred to Dubai from different parts of the globe including Bangladesh openly and secretly. 

Based on a report of US-based Centre for Advanced Defense Studies, the EU Tax Observatory said 459 Bangladeshis have purchased properties in Dubai concealing the information in their own country and the number of properties was 972 in 2020. 

According to the report, Bangladeshis have purchased properties worth approximately one billion dollar during this period and Bangladeshi people were the top buyers in the real estate sector of Dubai.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is now in any way trying to boost foreign investment. For this, it is offering various facilities for rich people from abroad to buy properties.

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Experts believe that huge amount of money are being transferred due to the lack of effective and strong measures to stop money laundering, it said.