Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday arrested eight persons, including a banker and two government officials, from different parts of the country on charge of fraudulence and misappropriating money.
Seven of them were arrested in connection with seven cases filed on charge of misappropriation and
another for fraudulence, according to ACC sources.
Deputy Director Abdus Sattar Sarkar arrested System Analyst of Education Directorate Abul Fazal M Belal from the city’s Segunbagicha area at 12 pm in a case filed against him and four others on February 7, 2015 for allegedly misappropriating about Tk 40 lakh, the commission’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The New Nation on Monday.
An ACC team led by its Deputy Director Jahangir Alam arrested former Manager of Bhaluka Branch (Mymensingh) of Sonali Bank Md Asaduzzaman from Bhaluka in a graft case for Tk four-lakh while Assistant Director of the Commission Amir Hossain detained Rafiqul Islam, a Project Secretary of Alokdia Union Parishad under Madhupur upazila in Tangail, for allegedly misappropriating about Tk 83,000 from a local government project.
Jahangir Alam arrested also former Manager of Bhaluka Branch of Sonali Bank Akramul Huque Khan from Bhaluka for allegedly swindling out Tk 35,000 from the bank.
An ACC team led by Deputy Director Abu Bakar Siddique arrested former Registrar of Brahmanbaria District from the capital in a graft case filed against him by the national anti-graft body on January 30, 2014.
Besides, ACC investigation officers arrested Mosharraf Hossain, Secretary of Daudpur Union Parishad of Nababganj in Dinajpur; Mohammad Harunur Rashid, Supervisor of local madrasha in Habiganj, and Mohammad Al Amin, former board member of local high school in Bogra in separate graft cases.
The Commission’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said that the ACC handed over them to the respective police stations. The ACC found all of them guilty in its investigation, he said.
