28 more people under ACC lens

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an inquiry against 28 additional persons whose names had cropped up during its ongoing drive against graft.

With this, the ACC is now carrying out investigations against 187 persons for their alleged involvement in corruption.

ACC director general (DG) Syed Mahbub Khan told this to reporters at the watchdog’s headquarters of the anti-corruption watchdog.

The DG said most of the persons in the new list are government service holders and many of them were posted with the housing and public works ministry. Khan, however, refused to divulge the names of those under scanner for the sake of the investigations.

Earlier, allegations of corruption were brought against 159 persons during the ongoing drive to unearth the illegal wealth of people involved in casino operations and other illegal businesses. The drive was launched on September 30. Also  yesterday, the ACC arrested two former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for their alleged involvement in fudging cargo handling charges, leading to a loss of Tk 118 crore to the government. The two are the former director for marketing and sales, Mohammad Ali Ahsan, and the former deputy general manager, Iftekhar Hossain Chowdhury.

The ACC deputy director, M Nasir Uddin, arrested the two form Dhaka’s Segunbagicha area immediately after filing a case against 16 people in this regard, according to the watchdog’s PRO, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

The other accused are Biman’s acting general manager for cargo M Arif Ullah, former manager M Shahidul Islam, former assistant managers Aminul Haque Bhuyan M Lutfe Zaman, Mosharraf Hossain Talukder, Rajib Hasan, Nasir Uddin Talukder, Anup Kumar, KN Alam, M Fazlul Haque, Sayed Ahmed Patwary, AKM Manjurul Haque and M Shahjahan.

According to the ACC, the accused had colluded among them and didn’t collect the charges to carry 139,892,490 kg of goods by a non-scheduled freighter between July 2012 and December 2017. Besides, the commission yesterday filed a case against Md. Firoz Iqbal, the former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department, on charges of amassing illegal wealth. He was accused of amassing Tk 64.67 lakh beyond his known sources of income and also transferring money by different methods to hide it.

ACC deputy director Shahin Ara Momotaj filed the case with the commission’s integrated district office 1 in Dhaka against Iqbal.

28 more people under ACC lens

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an inquiry against 28 additional persons whose names had cropped up during its ongoing drive against graft. With this, the ACC is now carrying out investigations against 187 persons for their alleged involvement in corruption. ACC director general (DG) Syed Mahbub Khan told this to reporters at the watchdogs headquarters of the anti-corruption watchdog. The DG said most of the persons in the new list are government service holders and many of them were posted with the housing and public works ministry. Khan, however, refused to divulge the names of those under scanner for the sake of the investigations. Earlier, allegations of corruption were brought against 159 persons during the ongoing drive to unearth the illegal wealth of people involved in casino operations and other illegal businesses. The drive was launched on September 30. Also yesterday, the ACC arrested two former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines for their alleged involvement in fudging cargo handling charges, leading to a loss of Tk 118 crore to the government. The two are the former director for marketing and sales, Mohammad Ali Ahsan, and the former deputy general manager, Iftekhar Hossain Chowdhury. The ACC deputy director, M Nasir Uddin, arrested the two form Dhakas Segunbagicha area immediately after filing a case against 16 people in this regard, according to the watchdogs PRO, Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee. The other accused are Bimans acting general manager for cargo M Arif Ullah, former manager M Shahidul Islam, former assistant managers Aminul Haque Bhuyan M Lutfe Zaman, Mosharraf Hossain Talukder, Rajib Hasan, Nasir Uddin Talukder, Anup Kumar, KN Alam, M Fazlul Haque, Sayed Ahmed Patwary, AKM Manjurul Haque and M Shahjahan. According to the ACC, the accused had colluded among them and didnt collect the charges to carry 139,892,490 kg of goods by a non-scheduled freighter between July 2012 and December 2017. Besides, the commission yesterday filed a case against Md. Firoz Iqbal, the former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department, on charges of amassing illegal wealth. He was accused of amassing Tk 64.67 lakh beyond his known sources of income and also transferring money by different methods to hide it. ACC deputy director Shahin Ara Momotaj filed the case with the commissions integrated district office 1 in Dhaka against Iqbal.