ACC sues Sajeda, KM Jahangir
Okays charges against Babar, AK Azad
Courtesy New Age 13/7/08
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The Anti-Corruption Commi-ssion on Thursday sued former ministers and Awami League leaders Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and AKM Jahangir Hussein for amassing illegal wealth and hiding asset information from the authorities.
The commission also approved the submission of charge-sheet against former state minister for home Lutfozzaman Babar for amassing illegal wealth of Tk 7 crore and concealing information on the assets.
It also endorsed the filing of separate cases against Hamim Group managing director AK Azad and former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s assistant private secretary Abdul Matin.
ACC assistant director Mozahar Ali Sarder filed a case with Ramna police station against Sajeda, also the Awami League presidium member, for acquiring illegal wealth of Tk 13.75 lakh and concealing wealth information in her statement.
Sajeda submitted her wealth statement of Tk 53.41 lakh, along with 100 tolas of gold, to the commission on February 11, 2008. Her name appeared on the fourth and last list of 35 graft suspects published by the commission on October 4, 2007.
ACC deputy director Mofidul Islam filed another case with the same police station against former state minister Jahangir for amassing illegal wealth of Tk 1.40 crore and hiding information on assets of Tk 76.45 lakh in his wealth report.
The commission’s director general (admin) Hanif Iqbal told reporters at the regular briefing on Thursday that the commission would sue business-tycoon AK Azad for acquiring Tk 20.36 crore beyond his known sources of income and hiding information of assets worth Tk 4.94 crore in his wealth report.
He said at the briefing that the commission would also file three separate cases against Matin, a deputy secretary (now an officer on special duty) on charges of abuse of power and misappropriation of money from the exchequer.
The ACC director also mentioned that the anti-corruption watchdog filed two cases against five individuals after catching them red-handed while taking bribe. They were caught on the mousetrap laid to catch graft suspects.
A case was filed on Wednesday with Chittagong Bandar police station against two Customs employees - Abul Kalam and Abdul Majid—for taking Tk 7,000 in bribe.
The second case was filed on July 6 with Barisal’s Uzirpur police station against Nurul Islam, Jahangir Alam and Hasnat Hawlader, employees of the office of assistant settlement officer, Uzirpur, for taking Tk 3,000 in underhand dealings.
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