Staff Reporter :
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) branded the housing ministry’s probe reports as ‘false, baseless and imaginary’ for wrong identification of four of its officials’ involvement in corruption in purchase of home appliances for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project, says a press releases signed by its Chairman Mahbubul Hoque on Thursday .
After a meeting over the issue at its Agargaon office, the commission in a press briefing protested the housing minister’s statement of taking action against 34 officials, including four BAEC officials for their involvement in the graft.
‘The statement was imaginary and we think that we were wrongfully blamed with the evil intention of making the long-termed project questionable,’ said the statement.
Housing minister SM Rezaul Karim on Wednesday at his office said he would request that Science and Technology Ministry for taking action against the Project Director Showkat Akbar, Deputy Project Director M Hasinur Rahman, Sub-Assistant Engineers M Mehedi Hasan and M Mahbubur Rahman for their involvement in corruption which took
place during monitoring and final inventorying stage of the purchase of appliances.
The minister also said that actions would be taken against 26 serving and four retired officials of PWD and Tk 36.40 extra paid to the contractors would also be adjusted from pending bills.
According to the contract, PWD was responsible for estimating cost of the project, their purchase through the contractors, paying bills, having its audit and handing over those to Rooppur project authorities.
A tripartite committee comprising officials of BAEC, PWD and a Russian firm scrutinised flat-wise inventory before handing over those to the Russian engineers in the finished four high-rises.
BAEC, however, claimed that they evaluated all documents of assigning the task to PWD and found they had no responsibility in monitoring and evaluation state.
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) branded the housing ministry’s probe reports as ‘false, baseless and imaginary’ for wrong identification of four of its officials’ involvement in corruption in purchase of home appliances for the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project, says a press releases signed by its Chairman Mahbubul Hoque on Thursday .
After a meeting over the issue at its Agargaon office, the commission in a press briefing protested the housing minister’s statement of taking action against 34 officials, including four BAEC officials for their involvement in the graft.
‘The statement was imaginary and we think that we were wrongfully blamed with the evil intention of making the long-termed project questionable,’ said the statement.
Housing minister SM Rezaul Karim on Wednesday at his office said he would request that Science and Technology Ministry for taking action against the Project Director Showkat Akbar, Deputy Project Director M Hasinur Rahman, Sub-Assistant Engineers M Mehedi Hasan and M Mahbubur Rahman for their involvement in corruption which took
place during monitoring and final inventorying stage of the purchase of appliances.
The minister also said that actions would be taken against 26 serving and four retired officials of PWD and Tk 36.40 extra paid to the contractors would also be adjusted from pending bills.
According to the contract, PWD was responsible for estimating cost of the project, their purchase through the contractors, paying bills, having its audit and handing over those to Rooppur project authorities.
A tripartite committee comprising officials of BAEC, PWD and a Russian firm scrutinised flat-wise inventory before handing over those to the Russian engineers in the finished four high-rises.
BAEC, however, claimed that they evaluated all documents of assigning the task to PWD and found they had no responsibility in monitoring and evaluation state.
