BGSL staff caught red-handed

The officials of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chittagong caught a Bakhrabad Gas Systems Limited (BGSL) official red-handed while taking bribes from a contractor in the port city yesterday noon.
They also picked up a colleague of the corrupt official for possessing a 1000-taka note which was used to trap the bribe recipient.
The BGSL officials were identified as assistant managers Syed Salah Uddin Ahmed and Nurul Islam. They both were working for the company's sales division in Agrabad area.
Sources said Salah Uddin demanded Tk 13,000 as bribes for signing 28 files of gas connections from BGSL contractor Aurangajeb Babul around one and a half months' ago.
The contractor paid an advance of Tk 7,000 and promised to pay the rest after the gas connections are given. But as the BGSL official neither signed the files nor gave the gas connections, Babul informed the ACC officials of the matter.
The ACC officials sent Babul to pay the rest of the bribes in ten 500-taka notes and one 1000-taka note after keeping records of them at around 12:00pm.
They were on the scene immediately after Salah Uddin took the bribes and caught him red-handed, sources added.
ACC Chittagong Director Major Julfiker Ali Majumder said, “We were waiting at the company office for around one hour and a half and following the movement of its officials. We caught Salah Uddin and Nurul Islam immediately after they had taken the bribes.”
“We found Tk 5,000 and Tk 1,000 in the pockets of Salah Uddin and Nurul Islam respectively. Nurul Islam claimed to have taken the 1000-taka note in exchange. We (ACC) are investigating the matter,” he added.
Sources said the ACC caught a manager and an assistant engineer of the same office red-handed on the same charges around six months ago.