Chittagong, Sep 17 (bdnews24.com)— The Anti Corruption Commission on Monday filed 10 graft cases against 13 people, including six Jamuna Oil Company officials, for irregularities and corruption in the distribution of Bitumen.
The cases were filed at Double Mooring Police Station by four officials of the ACC's Chittagong office, the station's Inspector (investigation) Satyajit Barua told bdnews24.com.
The others accused in the case are contractors, who in connivance with the officials, got themselves allocation for 55.15 metric tonnes of Bitumen worth Tk 79.4 million using 'phoney' work order that violates the company's guidelines.
They bought the bitumen at low prices, syndicating with the officials, and then sold it off in the open market at elevated prices, which has been proved in the commission's initial probe, the cases details add.
The accused Jamuna Oil officials are Deputy General Manager (Engine) Mahidur Rahman, DGM (PR) Mohammad Masud Karim, Assistant GM (Audit) Mohammad Khasru Azad, AGM (TS) Sabur Khan, Deputy Managers (Sales) Mohammad Amjad Hossain and Mohammad Yusuf Khandker.
"Other than them, Moaz Enterprise owner Mosharraf Hossain, Jaman Enterprise's Nurujjaman, Mahbub Enterprise's Mohammad Mahbub Hossain, S A Enterprise's Ali Ashraf, ZR Enterprise's Selim Hossain, Iqbal Brothers' Iqbal Hossain and Hassan Enterprise's Mohammad Hassan, all contractors, were also charged."
ACC Assistant Director Morshed Alam filed three cases, Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) Khalilur Rahman Shikder filed three, and DADs Saifullah Mohammad Imran and Fakhrul Islam filed two each.
The plaintiffs said in their cases that the accusations were found to be true in the probe that lasted from November last year to this year's February.
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