The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday arrested 25 graft suspects, including 19 cops, from different parts of the country in separate graft cases.
ACC deputy assistant director Md Abul Kalam Azad of its Pabna district office arrested 19 cops, who joined the police service showing fake freedom fighter certificates, from Chadakhar, Pabna, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB. All the detainees were earlier attached to Rajarbagh Police Lines in the capital. On November 6, 2014, a case was filed against them with Sirajganj Police Station in this regard. According to the case statement, the detainees in collusion with others joined the trainee recruit constable post of Bangladesh Police in the freedom fighters quota, but they showed fake certificates of freedom fighters.
ACC deputy assistant director Mustafa Burhan Uddin of its Tangail district office detained Abdul Quader Miah and Shukkur Mamur from Kunabari of Tangail for allegedly grabbing 450 decimals of land by preparing fake land documents.
ACC deputy director Abul Kalam Azad of its Comilla district office arrested accountant of Burichang upazila Mukhlesur Rahman and accountant of Comilla Sadar South upazila Billal Hossain Patwari for allegedly plundering Tk 16 crore of pensioners deposited at Brahmanbaria branch of Sonali Bank. On October 12, 2015, the ACC filed a case against 22 people, including a number of bank officials, in connection with the graft allegation. Besides, the ACC investigation officers detained two graft suspects from Mymensingh and Pabna in two cases.
