ACC to probe Soumen's properties

16 April 2012, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

The Anti-Corruption Commission decided to investigate properties and income sources of Soumen Sengupta, son of Suranjit Sengupta who resigned yesterday as railway minister following a cash haul involving his APS and two top railway officials. A notice will be served on Soumen today, asking him to give details of his properties and income sources, ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman told The Daily Star. The ACC yesterday at a meeting at its office in the capital took the decision to probe Soumen's properties. Soumen has recently obtained an interconnection exchange licence from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission at Tk 5 crore, according to ACC sources. Besides his other wealth, the ACC will specifically probe sources of this money, the ACC chairman said. The ACC is also investigating properties of Suranjit, his recently sacked assistant personal secretary Omar Faruq Talukder, suspended railway general manager (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and suspended Dhaka division security commandant Enamul Huq, he said. The four had been served notices asking them to submit details of their properties. They came in the spotlight after Border Guard Bangladesh on April 9 seized Tk 70 lakh from Faruq's private microbus and detained Faruq, his driver Ali Azam, Mridha and Enamul at the BGB Pilkhana headquarters when they were reportedly going to Suranjit's Jigatola residence. ACC's Deputy Director Akhter Hamid Bhuiyan has been assigned to investigate the properties of Soumen, Ghulam said. "Investigation into Soumen's properties is part of our regular process," the ACC chief said, adding that the commission had made the move following media reports on his properties.