The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday approved the submission of four charge sheets against 11 people, including detained Beximco Group Vice-chairman Salman F Rahman.
The ACC yesterday also approved filing cases against seven people including Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Abul Hossain in connection with misappropriating government money, amassing wealth beyond known sources of his income and concealing information about his actual wealth.
ACC Director General (admin) Col Hanif Iqbal disclosed the matters during a regular press briefing held at the ACC headquarters.
Against the backdrop of detained high-profile corruption suspects getting bails, he said everything is happening in accordance with law and there was no flaw in the legal procedures the commission carried out against the suspects.
Hanif said the ACC could not deal with the matter of bail prayers since the state was moving against the bail prayers filed by corruption suspects.
"The court has given its verdict regarding bail prayers. The ACC always files cases or gives approval for filing cases when law permits or allows. The courts also directed us to provide information on a number of matters regarding some cases and we will give it to the courts soon," said Hanif Iqbal.
Hanif also said they might initiate investigations into matters involving parliamentary election candidates if the ACC feels the necessity or if the Election Commission (EC) asks the commission to do so.
APPROVED CHARGE SHEETS
The ACC yesterday approved the submission of the charge sheet before a court against Salman F Rahman.
ACC Assistant Commissioner Mahbubul Alam filed the case against Salman F Rahman on September 5 with Motijheel Police Station in connection with obtaining a loan of over Tk 158.67 crore from IFIC Bank in Beximco Group's name through forgery.
The other accused in the case are Salman's brother and Chairman of Beximco Group Sohel F Rahman, former managing director of IFIC Bank Ataul Haque, ex-manager of IFIC Bank's Motijheel Branch Asab-ud-Doula and directors of Beximco Holdings Ltd Iqbal Ahmed and MA Qashem.
The charge sheet says that the accused returned only Tk 62.40 lakh of the loan and misappropriated the rest together.
Another charge sheet will be submitted before a court against former lawmaker Nurul Islam Moni and Jamal Hossain in connection with misappropriating corrugated iron (CI) sheets, meant for relief only, worth Tk 1.25 lakh.
Two other charge sheets will be submitted before courts against former municipality chairman Abdul Latif Biswas and temporarily suspended Detective Branch of Police sub-inspector Derik Stephen.
CASES
The ACC will file a case against Abul Hossain and four others in connection with depriving the government exchequer of Tk 2,55,20,000.
According to the case to be filed, the accused registered 92 decimals of land near Sylhet Airport Road with Tk 40 lakh. But the true value of the land is Tk 18 crore which would have required him to pay Tk 2,55,20,000 as registration fees.
The ACC will file a case against former sub-registrar of Meherpur Dewan Mojahar Hossain in connection with concealing information about his wealth worth Tk 32.63 lakh and amassing wealth worth Tk 51.11 lakh beyond his known sources of income.
The ACC will also file a case against deputy-assistant engineers of Bandarban Shafiqul Islam and Nazrul Islam after they were caught red handed by the ACC while taking Tk 70,000 bribe.
The ACC yesterday also approved issuing a notice against temporarily suspended Mongla Customs House appraiser Mahfizur Rahman Babul asking him to submit statement of wealth to the commission.