Staff Correspondent: Dhaka, Oct-07,
Two Deputy Commissioners by making syndicate have been looting Dhaka Customs House. The unwritten syndicate chiefs are Deputy Commissioners Md. Sanowarul Kabir and Md. Abdus Sadek.
They have been making crores of taka by releasing smuggled goods through their selected Assistant Revenue Officers. By this means government has been losing huge amount of revenue. Deputy Commissioner Sanowarul Kabir bought house in Australia by means of illegal earnings.
Besides, he owns a number of flats in Dhaka anonymously and by his name. On the other hand, Abdus Sadek built flats, houses and made wealth, informed sources. It is informed, two deputy commissioners made Dhaka Customs House a den of irregularities and corrupt on act of posting during last two years by managing two Members of National Board of Revenue.
Among the two Members one has to go for PRL on 15 November this year and another has to go on 05 January 2022.
Preventive Section and Air Freight Unit in Dhaka Customs House are the major section of revenue collection. Under these two sections 26 revenue officers and assistant revenue officers have been working. But, these two Deputy Commissioners gave responsibility of releasing goods to six officers only.
Two of these six officers are Assistant Revenue Officers Nueed Mahmud and Tabassum Murad Apu. They are the relatives of Md. Sanowarul Kabir. The rest four are the faithful associates of two deputy commissioners. They are Assistant Revenue Officers (ARO) Mohammad Sohel, Md. Aminul Haque, Molina Parvin and Milon Modhu. Other Officers have been attending office but are not doing any work.
They cannot made protest of irregularities even. When Deputy Commissioner Md. Sanowarul Kabir was contacted from The Citizen Times about his house in Australia and other irregularities and corruption, he advised the Correspondent to take information about his house in Australia. On the other hand, Abdus Sadek did not receive his mobile phone first.
Later, he requested the Correspondent to talk to him face to face in his office.
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