Staff Correspondent
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will file a case against 38 staff of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), formerly BTTB, including 21 divisional engineers for misappropriation and wastage of around Tk 23.04 crore.
Meanwhile, the ACC yesterday approved filing two separate cases against former lawmaker M Shahjahan and seven others on charges of irregularities and corruption in obtaining 16 plots in Noakhali in the name of his family members and relatives.
Besides, an ACC investigation has found embezzlement of Tk 87.99 lakh in BTCL’s procurement office in the capital in a single fiscal year in 2001-2002.
ACC Director General (Admin) Col Hanif Iqbal told these during a routine press briefing at ACC headquarters yesterday afternoon.
The 38 BTCL staff also includes 11 deputy divisional and assistant engineers, and six divisional accountants who carried out the corruption in collusion with each other.
Of the total amount, Tk 20.52 crore was spent in addition to the budget through power abuse in 14 divisional offices while the rest was expended through fake documents, ACC revealed.
In one of the two cases former lawmaker Shahjahan and two others will be accused of obtaining 10 plots in the name of relatives of Shahjahan in exchange of providing an acre land of public works department in Noakhali to a cooperative society, ACC said.
Another case will be filed against Shahjahan and five others on charge of allotting six plots of public works department at Maizdi in the name of his son and relatives.
Graft in procurement office of BTTB
According to the ACC investigation, the BTTB procurement office prepared documents of four local and 11 foreign tenders in the fiscal year spending Tk 90.15 lakh against the allotted Tk 78.56 lakh.
Of the Tk 90.15 lakh, Tk 64.63 lakh was misappropriated by producing fake bills and vouchers in the name of preparing tender documents, carrying documents to the office, recreation and labor expenditure.
Tk 23.36 lakh was shown to have been given to 34 BTTB staff as special transportation costs during the time.
Courtesy: thedailystar.net
