Staff Correspondent:
Dhaka, Aug-27,
As many as 27 government employees have been booked by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for allegedly embezzling over Tk 10.40 crore by generating fake vouchers.
The case was lodged
against the 27 officials, including three sub-inspectors (SI), on a complaint
from the ACC's assistant director of the Jessore integrated district office,
Mahfuz Iqbal.
The accused in the case
are Satkhira Debhata Police Station SI Hasina Khatun, SI Md Sabur Alam Khan,
Jessore Police Line SI Md Mahabub Alam, Magura Police Line retired SI Saifur
Islam and former traffic SI Md Abdul Hai, and retired ASIs Md Atiyar Rahman and
Shah Alam Gazi.
Others booked in the
case include Magura District Police Line accountant Sharifuzzaman, Magura
District accounting and finance officer GM Zillur Rahman, finance officers
Saiful Islam and Sarkar Rafiqul Islam, and auditors of the same office -- Ajmal
Hossain, Abdul Latif Mia, Fazlur Shahid and Sheikh Abdus Salam.
Magura District Police
Line constables Gazi Mashiur Rahman, Firoz Hossain, Shipon Mridha, Taslima
Khatun and Halima, retired constable Krishnapad Biswas, Akbar Ali and Abul
Kashem, Narail resident Azmal Munsi,
Magura resident Rokaiya Yasmin Bichitra and senior principal officer of
Sonali Bank Wazed Ali, have also been named in FIR.
According to the case
details, the so-called General Provident Fund (GPF), lamp grant, deposit
against supplies and work bill from the Magura police chief's office was not
sent to the Magura District Accounts Office. But the accused officials
embezzled over Tk 9 crore by issuing 81 account payable checks in the name of
nine people.
In the same manner, the
six retired policemen of Magura District Police Atiyar Rahman, Shah Alam Gazi,
Khan Md. Abdul Hai, Krishnapad Biswas, Akbar Ali and Abul Kashem allegedly embezzled
over Tk 76 lakh.
The case has been filed
against the accused under Section 409/109 of the Penal Code, Section 5 (2) of
the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 and Section 4 (2) of the Prevention of
Money Laundering Act, 2012.
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