2 BSCIC engineers held over graft
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today arrested two engineers of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) for allegedly misappropriating Tk 52.66 lakh.
An ACC team arrested Saiful Islam Khan, BSCIC’s executive engineer of civil engineering department, and Belayet Hossain, assistant engineer of the same department, from Dhaka’s Motijheel area around 3:00pm.
According to the case statement, BSCIC acquired about 11 acres of land in Jhalkathi for a project. Between June 24, 2015 and June 30, 2016, the two engineers in collaboration with others created fake documents in which they mentioned there were four ponds that needed to be filled up.
Subsequently, they showed those four fake ponds filled-up and embezzled Tk 52,66,250, the case statement read.
The case was filed with Jhalkathi Police Station yesterday.
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