Recruitment Scam: Four top officials of Biman get bail
A Dhaka court yesterday granted ad-interim bail to four top incumbent and former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, after they surrendered in a case filed over scam in recruiting 30 pilot cadets.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Senior Special Judge’s Court of Dhaka passed the order after the accused surrendered before the court and sought bail in the case.
The accused are former managing director Abul Munim Mosaddique Ahmed, flight operation director Capt Farhat Hasan Jamil, incumbent principal of Bangladesh Airlines Training Centre Partha Kumar Pandit, and manager (recruitment) Fakhrul Hossain Chowdhury.
On November 25 last year, ACC Assistant Director Saiful Islam filed the case with the ACC integrated district office against the four over the scam. The accused officials gave 30 cadet pilots “grace marks” and then manipulated viva exams to give them jobs, according to the case FIR.
Even before the tests, the then Biman authorities relaxed the minimum educational qualification and age limits to allow underqualified candidates to apply, it said, adding that one of the recruits is the nephew of Abul Munim Mosaddique Ahmed, who was forced to quit the state airline.
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