ACC okays charges against six

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charge sheets against six persons, including three bank officials, in three cases filed over alleged misappropriation of Tk 7.8 crore.

ACC's Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee said they would submit the charge sheets to courts soon.

ACC gave charge sheet against Moin Uddin Ahmed and Monirul Islam for embezzling Tk 6.42 crore from the Chittagong's Khatunganj branch of Bangladesh Commerce Bank Ltd.

In another case, ACC gave charge sheet accusing bank officer Sukumar Roy and proprietor of Nafisa Traders Nur Alam Haq Pramanik for embezzling Tk 1.24 crore.

In 2013, a case was filed against former line director of Directorate General of Health Service Anwarul Islam Khan and executive director of Advance Business Center Sayeed Jamal Khan for misappropriating Tk 30 lakh.

ACC's deputy director Jahangir Hossain, who investigated the case, found that there was a campaign launched in 2009-10 fiscal to discourage mothers to use substitutes of breast milk. Though no campaign was held, Anwarul in collaboration with Jamal withdrew the money producing fake vouchers in five installments, reads the charge sheet.

Meanwhile, ACC yesterday quizzed Ashfaq Aziz Rubel, a director of Partex Group, in a case filed for obtaining two plots in Purbachal illegally.

Earlier, ACC arrested Rubel's brother Amber Group Chairman Showkat Aziz Russell and ex-chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and six others in connection with the case. Showkat is now on bail.