The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested three engineers of the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) at their offices in the port city over embezzling around Tk 39.29 lakh from construction projects.

A Chittagong court sent the three--assistant engineers Sayed Golam Sarwar and Hamidul Haque, and Deputy Assistant Engineer Md Jahangir Alam to jail.

Sarwar has been made accused in six cases over embezzling Tk 24,56,160 while Hamidul in one case and Jahangir in two cases over misappropriating Tk 52,541 and Tk 14,19,695 respectively, said  Chittagong ACC's Director Aktar Hossain.

They allegedly embezzled the money in cooperation with contractors at different times. The ACC filed the cases in 2008.