Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday approved the chargesheet against 8 people including the present executive engineer of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), on charges of taking bribes amounting to nearly nearly Tk 1.29 crore through pay order.
ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the news agency.
Earlier Gazi Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, assistant
general manager (accounts and finance) of Basic Dredging Company Ltd, filed the case with Motijheel Police Station in the capital on June 6, 2008 while Deputy Director of Coordinated Sylhet Office of ACC Nur E Alam investigated the case.
The accused are BIWTA executive engineer Saiful Islam, also former director of ‘Aricha-Rajshahi-Godagari-Bholahat Waterways Dredging Project’, his mother-in-law Sharmin Islam, deputy assistant engineer Mohammad Abu Bakkar Siddique, his wife Fazila Khatun, deputy assistant engineer Mohammad Zahirul Huq, his wife Afroza Khanam and assistant engineer AH Mohammad Farhaduzzaman ( now deputy assistant engineer) and his wife Ferdous Jahan.
The complainant alleged that his company was forced to pay the accused Tk 1.29 crore in bribe in exchange for payment of bills. According to the case statement, Basic Dredging Company Ltd Director Tahmina Rehman paid them Tk 1, 29, 05,939 through 21 pay orders between November 10, 2005 and June 30, 2006.
The case statement also described the company paid Tk 81,99,821 to protect director Saiful Islam and his wife Sharmina Islam through 12 pay orders while Tk 15,68,706 was paid to Abu Bakkar, his wife Fazila Khatun, Zahirul Huq, his wife Afroza Khanam, Mohammad Farhaduzzaman and his mother-in-law Ferdows Jahan.
The project was completed at a cost of about Tk 9 crore.
