Fresh allegation against Proshika boss, 9 others

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Staff Reporter :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has received another allegation against Dr Kazi Faruque Ahmed, Chairman of Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra, and nine others that they misappropriated a huge amount of money of the organisation through forgery.So, the top executives of the Commission on Thursday took the decision of holding an inquiry and assigned the duty to a deputy director.Before it, on June 9 in 2008, the Commission filed a money laundering caseagainst Proshika Chairman and some others and submitted charge sheet on January 14 in 2009. According to the charge sheet, the chairman in collaboration with other accused transferred a very good amount from mother account to personal account without approval of NGO Affairs Bureau.Some foreign NGOs gave this fund to them for a project namely Poverty Removing Project. And thus, they plundered the money. The Commission in its investigation found that the money was spent for higher study of Kazi Faruque’s son and daughter, and son of the Proshika’s Official Nargis Akhter abroad. U$2,469.41 was remitted for them.

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