Coal missing: ACC completes quizzing 32 Petrobangla officials

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UNB, Dhaka :
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday interrogated eight more officials of Petrobangla in connection of the mysterious disappearance of a huge stack of coal from Barapukurua Coal Mine.
With these eight, ACC completed interrogation of as many as 32 Petrobangla officials in total in connection of coal disappearance probe.
Earlier on August 13, ACC asked 32 officials of Petrobangla to be present for interrogation at ACC on different dates in phases.
The last phase of the interrogation began at 9 am on Thursday at the ACC office in the city, ACC’s public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
The petrobangla officials who faced the questioning of the ACC on
Thursday are -Deputy Managing Director (Coal Handling and Management) Khalilur Rahman, former Managing Director (Finance) Abdul Mannan Patwari and Gopal Chandra Saha, Manager (Accounting) Sarwar Hossain, Manager (Sales and Revenue Collection) Kamrul Hasan, Deputy Manager (Marketing and Customer Services) Mohammad Noman Pradhaniya, former General Manager (Administration) AKM Sirajul Islam and Shariful Alam and Assistant Manager (Security) Al Amin.
ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam, who is serving as the investigation officer, quizzed the eight officials.
Barapukuria Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant had to be shut down for the mysterious disappearance of a huge volume of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine.
The disappearance of coal came to light on July 22, when a team from the Power Development Board visited the coal mine and found that there was no adequate reserve of coal in the yard of the mine. As per the official investigation, the stock was found to have a shortage of 148,000 tonnes of coal.
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