ACC asked to reinvestigate Falu's case

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to reinvestigate the case against detained former BNP lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu, four ward commissioners of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and 11 others for misuse of government relief materials.
The same court also ordered confiscation of all properties of a proprietor of Navana Group Ltd and three other businessmen accused in a graft case filed with Kotwali Police Station. All the four are absconding.
The Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court ordered reinvestigation into the case against Falu and others as it found several flaws in the previous probe.
Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque of the court directed the investigation officer (IO) of the case to submit the fresh probe report by November 28.
On September 17, ACC Assistant Director Sheikh Abdus Salam, also IO of the case, submitted a charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's (CMM) Court, Dhaka, showing Falu and 15 others as
accused and 75 people as prosecution witnesses.
The charge-sheeted accused include Sharmila Imam, commissioner of DCC Ward-54, MA Majid, commissioner of DCC Ward-55, Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan alias Jahangir, commissioner of DCC Ward-37, Anwaruzzaman, commissioner of DCC Ward-40, Ruhul Amin's personal assistants Sujat Ali and Manzur Alam, compositor of the BG Press Shafiuddin Ahmed Babul and Nazir Ahmed, peon of DCC Ward-37 office.
The other accused are Anwar Hossain, headmaster of Tejgaon Community Centre Adarsha High School, Hafez Farhad Hossain, Imam of Baitul Nur Jame Masjid, Falu's personal assistant ABM Masudur Rahman, Sharmila's personal assistant Haider Sheikh, Abul Anwar Hossain of South Begunbari, Mahbub Hossain Bhuiyan and Monirul Islam Sohel of North Shahjahanpur.
Of them, Falu, Anwar Hossain and Nazir were arrested earlier and are now detained in jail custody. The rest 13 are still at large.
On March 2, security personnel recovered 605 corrugated iron (CI) sheets and 63 blankets meant for relief from a ward commissioner's office at Tejgaon.
During investigation, the IO found that Falu and others embezzled 100 bundles of CI sheets, 63 blankets, 150 tonnes of rice and Tk 1 lakh meant for relief.
CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY
The court ordered attaching all properties of Navana Group proprietor Saiful Islam Suman and three others in a case for sale of a tax-free car.
The other accused are Waliullah, proprietor of Autocraft Ltd, Shahbuddin Ahmed, chairman and managing director of Kader Synthetic Fibre Ltd and Abdul Jabbar Miah, chairman and managing director of Liner Group of Industries Ltd.
On November 4, ACC Assistant Director Syed Ahmed, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a charge sheet to the CMM's Court against detained former Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) lawmaker Mufti Shahidul Islam and the four others showing 32 people as prosecution witnesses.
ACC Deputy Director Golam Shahriar Chowdhury filed the case with Kotwali Police Station on May 31 against Shahidul and others for evading taxes of Tk 8,091,720.
ACC taskforce with the help of police raided Liner Group of Industries at 21 Hazi Abdur Rashid Lane at Nayabazar and found Shahidul's 4700cc Lexus car in the parking zone.
The Lexus car was imported under parliament members' duty-free car import privilege, which was abolished later.