Amtali mayor sued over graft charges

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed two cases against the incumbent mayor of Amtali municipality in Barguna, Matiar Rahman, and his wife Nusrat Jahan for amassing about Tk 4.28 crore illegally.

ACC assistant director Omar Faruk filed the cases yesterday.

The ACC asked the couple to submit their wealth statement on August 22, 2019. They submitted the statement on November 28.

Matiar declared owning movable property worth Tk 7.9 lakh and immovable property worth Tk 2.58 crore, while Nusrat declared having movable property of Tk 83.75 lakh and immovable property worth Tk 1.33 crore.

During the inquiry, the ACC found that the couple bought two plots at Eastern Housing in Aftabnagar at about Tk 4.56 crore.

But they showed investments of only about Tk 28 lakh in the plots in their wealth statements and concealed information of about Tk 4.28 crore.

The ACC has already seized the pay-orders and cheques as evidence of the payment.

The FIR reads that while Matiar earned the money illegally, Nusrat bought the plots with his husband's dirty money.

However, Matiar Rahman commented that this was a vested group's conspiracy against him. "There has been a mistake while filing my wealth statement, which I corrected at first chance and did everything by the book," he told this correspondent.