Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has opened a probe against transport sector leader Khandaker Enayetullah over the allegation of extorting Tk 165 crore per day from the buses in Dhaka and its adjacent areas.
ACC Deputy Director Mohammed Nurul Huda has sent a letter to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) seeking information on the complaint against Enayet.
Enayetullah, also General Secretary of Dhaka Road Transport Owners Association, has allegedly extorted Tk 165 crore a day from the 15,000 buses operating in Dhaka and its surroundings, and also amassed illegal wealth running into millions, the ACC said in the letter. ACC sought the details of the vehicles registered under the names of Enayetullah, his wife Nargis Samsad, daughter Chashme Jahan Nishi and son Ridwanul Ashiq Niloy to the Investigation Officer.
Enayetullah denied any wrongdoing, dismissing the ACC probe as a ‘conspiracy’ against him.
“We expelled the extortionists from the organisation a year back. Since then they have been raising allegations against us in the media and other places,” he said. On October 1 in 2019, former leader of Road Transport Owners Association Ismail Hossain Bachchu accused Enayet of extorting ‘Tk 165 crore per day,” in a press briefing under the banner of ‘Bangladesh Road Transport Owner-Worker Unity.’
“It’s a false allegation. There’s no scope for extortion in Dhaka,” Enayetullah said in protest on October 27. Road Transport Owners Association President Mashiur Rahman Ranga called Ismail Hossain Bachchu an ‘extortionist.’
We could not reach Bachchu over mobile phone to clarify the allegation of extortion against him.
