The government will sell the properties of Nassa Group Chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder to pay the company’s workers, after the embattled businessman signed a draft power of attorney from jail.

Nazrul Islam Mazumder, chairman of Nassa Group and a close associate of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has been accused of trade-based money laundering amounting to Tk 16,000 crore by the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit.