Bcmcl Coal Scam: Ex-MD, two more officials land in jail
Three officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL), including a former managing director, were sent to jail after a Dinajpur court rejected their bail prayers in a Tk 244 crore coal scam case yesterday.
They are former MD Habib Uddin Ahmed, General Manager (mine operations) Abu Taher Mohammad Nuruzzaman Chowdhury, and Deputy General Manager (store) AKM Khaledul Islam.
Md Anisur Rahman, a manager (admin) of BCMCL, filed a case in July 2018 with Parbatipur police station accusing 19 people, including Habib who was the then MD. Habib was later suspended by Petrobangla.
In the case, it was mentioned that around 1.45 lakh metric tonnes of coal were found to be missing from the coal yard in early July last year.
Operations of the coal-fired power plant remained suspended for more than 50 days as the supply of coal had fallen short.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) began investigation that very month with Md Shamsul Alam, deputy director of the ACC, as the investigation officer of the case.
Abu Hena Ashiqur Rahman, assistant director of the Commission in the district, submitted the charge sheet to the same court on July 24 this year.
Earlier on Tuesday, the court accepted the charge sheet of the case and issued an arrest warrant for the 23 charge sheeted accused.
Omar Faruk, a lawyer for the ACC in Dinajpur, said that all 23 accused worked for BCMCL and have appeared before the senior special judge court of Aziz Ahmed Bhuiyan with bail prayers.
The other 20 accused in the case, including six former managing directors, were granted bail.
Speaking to The Daily Star earlier, Habib Uddin Ahmed said that it was a system loss, which was never taken into consideration since the coal production began in 2005.
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