<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Members of law enforcement agencies and army personnel conducted a drive at the Banani office of former state minister for power, energy and mineral resrouces Nasrul Hamid early Wednesday morning and recovered Tk 29 lakh.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They conducted the drive at Priyo Prangan on Road 17 in Banani and seized an electronic vault.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Youth and Sports Adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan, coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement Sarjis Alam, another coordinator Hasnat Abdullah, Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur and the Dhaka Additional District Magistrate were present during the drive.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the drive, Tk 308,700 was recovered from a drawer next to a large vault in the finance and accounts room of Hamid Group's office on the second floor of the Priyo Prangan building. Tk 394,300 more was found in a separate drawer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Additionally, Tk 2,093,000 was seized from the office. Some foreign currencies were also seized from the office.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gono Odhikar Parishad President Nur, told the media that they had received information indicating that Nasrul Hamid had been funding Chhatra League and others to suppress the recent student protests.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The drive was conducted to gather evidence supporting these claims, he added.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nur also alleged that they had received information that professional gunmen had been paid from this building.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Tuesday, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) ordered the freezing of bank accounts linked to several prominent individuals, including Nasrul Hamid and former Dhaka Metropolitan Police Joint Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The action came as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering and other financial irregularities.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>