The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday arrested a sub-divisional comptroller of accounts and a Union Parishad chairman in separate graft cases.
ACC assistant director Nurul Huda of its Comilla zila office arrested sub-divisional comptroller of accounts (Dhaka Division) Md Abu Taher from the city’s Segunbagicha area, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB. On October 12, 2015, the ACC filed a case against him with Brahmanbaria Sadar Police Station for allegedly misappropriating public money of about Tk 16 crore.
According to the case statement, Abu Taher swindled out the money from Sonali Bank’s Brahmanbaria branch by preparing fake bills to pensioners while he was the zila accounts officer in Brahmanbaria.
ACC assistant director Md Shamim Iqbal of its Khulna zila office arrested Senhati Union Parishad chairman Gazi Ziaur Rahman from circuit house area of Khulna city for allegedly misappropriating food grain from vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme. On September 8, 2016, the ACC filed a case against him with Dighalia Police Station of Khulna for allegedly selling 7,500 kg rice of VGF to local market illegally.
