Property’s value 13 times his whole life’s salary

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Amir Khasru, building inspector and a class-three ranked employee, drew Tk 13.94 lakh salary during his 12-year service with Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) since 1995.

Also president of Rajuk unit Sramik Dal, Amir, however, showed Tk 1.76 crore movable and immovable property in his income tax return last year.

His name also appeared on the list of graft suspects prepared by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). Investigators while dealing with his case found amazing fact of cheating and forgery.

He showed on papers that he received Tk 54.33 lakh from his wife Parvin Akhter, who he claimed had earned the sum through her job with Unicef from 1985 to 1994.

But according to her SSC certificate, Parvin was an adolescent of hardly 11 years in 1985. The local chapter of Unicef also confirmed tax officials that she never served there.

Sources say Parvin, owner of a six-storey building in Rupnagar in Mirpur, is actually a housewife.

Moreover, Amir claimed he had received Tk 14 lakh as interest free loan from one Shahinur Islam. But the ‘lender’ said he even does not personally know Amir and even filed a forgery case against him with Tejgaon police on February 7.

The Rajuk inspector did all these to his tax document to make his black money white.

Although a class-three employee, Amir was one of the most powerful staffs in Rajuk due to his political influence, and became a millionaire through power abuse.

Officials of Rajuk say Amir, who is on the run for the last one year, had an absolute influence over the organisation during the BNP-Jamaat rule.

“No transfer, promotion or other activities were possible without paying him bribe,” said a Rajuk employee asking not to be identified.

According to investigators, he abused his influence and made two six-storey buildings — one in Sheorapara in Mirpur, another in Rupnagar residential area. None of his family lives in either of these houses now. Neighbours said Amir’s wife and children are in Muradnagar.

He along with his wife also owns a five-katha plot in Purbachal Housing Project, three plots of 2.5 katha each in Badda Rehabilitation Project and around two acres of land property in Muradnagar, Comilla, from where he hailed.

All these assets he showed in his income tax file as earned through rent of his house and bank interests.

The investigators have found two business entities — Nishat Design and Consultant, registered in 2005, and Niloy Enterprise, registered in 2006. “But those business entities did not do any transaction. These were made just to use as tools to whiten black money,” said a taskforce member.

The investigators believe Amir’s brother-in-law Omar Farukh’s five-katha plot on Uttara road No. 7 and his mother Qazi Hosneara Begum’s two plots in Uttara are also his making.

He used his influence to allocate a three-katha plot to Salahuddin Khan, a survey assistant of Rajuk, in Uttara third phase. Salahuddin sold this plot allocation to Anwara Begum, Amir’s mother-in-law.

Later, Amir used his influence to transfer the land to Uttara sector 10 without any application and sold it to one Sirajul Islam at Tk 50 lakh.

The taskforce started investigation against him with the bank transaction of that money, sources say.

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