Rangpur, April 11 (BDNEWS) – The misappropriation of Tk two crore from the savings accounts of the post offices of Rangpur, Gaibandha, Lalmonirhat, Kurigram and Nilphamari has alerted the Post and Telecommunication Ministry.
The ministry has come across surprising information trying to unravel the mystery.
A source said, the first trick of the savings account racketeers was to list the dead policy-holders and find out about their relatives. Then the relatives were monitored and when the date for claim elapsed, the racketeers divided up the money among their own savings accounts proportionately.
The source added there were even such policy-holders whose family members were in the dark about the accounts. But the officials of the post offices knew about the accounts and misappropriated the money.
According to the source, the racketeering process was carried on with a lot of shrewdness over a long time.
The source requesting anonymity said, two officials of Rangpur Post Office controlled the network of racketeers. The network extended over all the post offices of Greater Rangpur. According to some of the relatives of the racketeers, though some of them were only postal operators, they live luxuriously.
There was another such racketeering incident involving band rolls worth Tk 1.21 crore in 2002. But the incident was not investigated properly and the perpetrators got away. The recent racketeering incident has many points of similarity to that of 2002.
BDNEWS/1733 hrs
