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Download PDF The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will submit a charge sheet today against 25 individuals, including two former ministers and three former secretaries and Rajuk officials, in a case filed for selling 18 Rajuk houses in the city’s posh areas at very low prices.
“The commission approved the submission of the charge sheet against 25 individuals on Tuesday. It’s being prepared and will be submitted tomorrow,” a competent ACC source told the news agency yesterday.
ACC Deputy Assistant Director Rezaul Haque Tarafder will submit the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s court.
“Yes, the commission has approved the submission of charge sheet in the case for selling 18 houses of Rajuk at low prices. The charge sheet will be submitted very soon…Within this week,” ACC secretary Mokhles ur Rahman told reporters in the afternoon.
ACC Assistant Director Shahidul Alam on March 29 filed a first information report (FIR) with Motijheel Police Station against 12 individuals, including detained former minister Mirza Abbas, for causing a loss of over Tk 127 crore to the national exchequer by selling 18 abandoned houses.
It was stated in the FIR that these individuals in connivance with each other sold or approved the selling of 18 abandoned houses in the capital’s posh areas of Gulshan, Banani, Dhanmondi and New Eskaton through fake auctions. These houses were sold at much lower prices than the market ones.
Their irregularities caused the government a huge loss of Tk 127,64,19,059.86, the FIR said.
Although the FIR was filed against 12 accused, there will be 25 names in the charge sheet as involvement of 14 others, including a former commerce minister, was found during investigation. The name of ex-Works Division executive engineer Syed Mahfuz Ahmed, who was one of the accused, will be dropped, as his wrongdoing was not proved during the investigation.
Those accused in the FIR are Mirza Abbas, former secretaries SM Jafrullah and Shahid Alam, ex-Rajuk executive engineer Riazul Monir, ex-Works Division executive engineer Syed Mahfuz Ahmed, ex-Rajuk superintending engineer Mohammad Ali, former Rajuk finance director Humayun Khan, former Rajuk estate director and managing director of
Sonargaon Hotel Golam Nabi, ex-joint secretary of Information Ministry Mir Mosharraf Hossain, ex-Rajuk chief engineer Emdadul Islam, ex-project director of Purbachal Town Development Project Abdus Sadek and ex-Works Division superintending engineer Ziauddin Ahmed.
The 14 individuals who are also going to be included in the charge sheet along with 11 others are former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury, former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s political secretary Harris Chowdhury, former MP Kazi Anwar Hossain, former secretary Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury, managing director of Cocola Foods
Shukkur Miah, chairman of a housing developer SM Anwar Hossain, Niu ze Mendes, Nurus Sofa, Shafiqur Rahman Kiron, Chittagong Awami League leader Afsar Uddin’s wife Hasna Ahmed, Ambia Group Managing Director Abul Kasem, former secretary general of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira) Ali Haider Chowdhury, Mehedi Hasan of Orion Group and Basundhara Group Chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan alias Shah Alam.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
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