ACC arrests Padma Oil former MD for corruption
BSS
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested Abu Khayer, former managing director (MD) of the state-run Padma Oil Company Ltd, from his Gulshan residence, out of the seven accused in two separate graft cases on the charges of misappropriating over Taka 3.8 crore.
We arrested Abuk Khayer from his residence at house no-1, flat no-I, road no-113/A at Gulshan-2 in the capital after 12am yesterday in two corruption cases for misappropriation of over Taka 3.8 crore from the public exchequer, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director (public relations) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said, reports BSS.
Asked about measures to capture the remaining six accused, he said, If they do not obtain bail in the cases, they will be arrested soon.
Md Sirajul Haque, assistant director of the commission, filed the cases with Sadarghat Police Station of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) on April 6, 2017. Seven people including Abul Khayer were accused in the cases.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed one of the two cases on the charge of embezzling over Tk 2.75 crore from a project on installing the Hydrant line, an aviation fueling system, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the fiscal 1995-96.
In another case, five persons including Abul Khayer were accused for misappropriating around Tk 33 lakh during the construction of a three-storey office of Padma Oil at Doulatpur in Khulna in 1996.
The money was misappropriated without doing the work as per schedule.
