Staff Reporter
Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved the submission of charge sheet against nine officials of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) for accumulating about Tk 4 crore beyond known source of income and concealing information about another Tk 4 crore.
One of them is former director Mohammad Toufiq of BTCL, who was accused of accumulating Tk 3,99,87,002 beyond known source of income and concealing information of Tk 3,89,87,002.
This was stated by ACC Director General (administration) Col Hanif Iqbal at his regular press briefing at the ACC’s office yesterday.
The commission has also approved eight lawsuits against 47 officials of revenue-1 and revenue-2 offices of BTCL, formerly known as Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB), on charges of drawing more than Tk 14 crore illegally and misappropriating over Tk 17 crore.
They misappropriated this amount beyond budgetary allocation by abusing power during 2001 and 2008 and through fake bills and vouchers.
They accused are: former directors- Md Nur Hossain Mia, Md Abul Kashem Mia, Kazi Abbasuddin, Gulshan Ara and Kazi Manzurul Karim; senior accountant officers-Sheikh Ali Ahmmad, Md Idris Ali, Moniruzzaman Choudhury, ABM Fazlul Haq, Dewan Md Akhtaruzzaman, Abdul Mannan Talukdar, Zahidur Rahman, Md Abdul Latif Hawladar, Md Shajahan Mia, Md Masud Hasan and Md Ayud Reza Pahlabi; assistant directors- Hemayet Uddin, Abdul Mazid Mia, Syed Shakhawat Hossain Choudhury, Md Mohiuddin, Sawkat Ali Mia, Nurul Islam Choudhury and ATM Khaliquzzaman; senior/junior accountant officers- Ahmmed Ali, Md Mohiuddin,
Md Mainul Islam, Md Rafiqul Islam, Md Mohiuddin, Golam Mostafa, Md Iqbal Bahar, Md Ilias Uddin Ahmmed, Md Golam Kibria, Md Taslim Hossain, Mahmudul Alam, Md Nazibur Rahman, Md Mazibur Rahman, Md Liyakat Hossain Molla, Shamsul Huda, Syed Abul Kalam, Mahadeb Chandra Basu, Md Tofazzal Hossain, BM Shahadat Hossain, Abdus Sattar and Sohrab Hossain and cashiers/senior assistant (bill clerks)- Sief Uddin Ahmed, Pradip Kumur Dash and Md Azad Hossain.
BTCL has divided the Dhaka division (except greater Faridpur) into six specialised telecommunication zones under the supervision of as many GMs.
He said that a huge and abnormal sum of money was also allocated in the name of maintenance.
Besides, the commission has particularly identified 19 offices of BTCL where corruption was rampant. The corrupt officials of these offices had drawn about Tk 24 crore by abusing power and pocketed another sum about Tk 17.5 crore through fake papers and mutual arrangement in the last eight years, he added.
These officials used pad in the name of fake contractors and quotation for appropriating the money. They had also drawn money showing fake labourers in the vouchers and bills, the ACC DG told the reporters.
Courtesy: nation.ittefaq.com
