Ex-panel mayor, shipbuilder held on graft charges

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a shipbuilder and a former panel mayor in separate graft cases, reports UNB.
An ACC team, led by its director Syed Iqbal Hossain, arrested owner of Northern Shipbuilder and Dockyard Monirul Islam Mollah from the city's Mirpur area in connection with BASIC Bank loan scam, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the news agency.
On September 21, 2015, the ACC filed a case against Mollah and others with Gulshan Police Station for allegedly swindling out over Tk 60 crore from BASIC Bank's Gulshan branch.
ACC deputy director Toufiqul Islam of Tangail district office arrested former panel mayor of Madhupur municipality Mehdi Hasan Manju for allegedly issuing a fake birth certificate to an adolescent girl showing her as an adult.

 

Ex-panel mayor, shipbuilder held on graft charges

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a shipbuilder and a former panel mayor in separate graft cases, reports UNB. An ACC team, led by its director Syed Iqbal Hossain, arrested owner of Northern Shipbuilder and Dockyard Monirul Islam Mollah from the citys Mirpur area in connection with BASIC Bank loan scam, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the news agency. On September 21, 2015, the ACC filed a case against Mollah and others with Gulshan Police Station for allegedly swindling out over Tk 60 crore from BASIC Banks Gulshan branch. ACC deputy director Toufiqul Islam of Tangail district office arrested former panel mayor of Madhupur municipality Mehdi Hasan Manju for allegedly issuing a fake birth certificate to an adolescent girl showing her as an adult.