128 Titas officials, employees to hand over ill-gotten property to govt worth million 5.7$
One hundred and twenty-eight officials and employees of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited have reportedly agreed to hand over to the government their property worth about Tk 400 crore earned through corruption.
The assurance was given in writing to the special task force the national coordination committee on serious crimes and corruption assigned to look after the activities of the company.
The task force opened its office on the first floor of the company’s headquarters at Kawran Bazar on October 25, 2007.
The task force chief, Lieutenant Colonel ATM Hasan Ahmed, said they were interviewing 15 officials and employees of the company on an average a day.
Sources in the task force said they had so far interviewed 209 employees and 79 officials. One hundred and eighteen employees submitted their wealth statements of which 10 were sent to the Anti-Corruption Commission. The statements of 10 officials were also sent to the commission, the sources said.
The list included the names of four former managing directors and two deputy managing directors, the sources said.
The task force has so far listed about 1,000 officials and employees for their alleged involvement in corruption and 175 of them have already been transferred out of Dhaka.
The transferred employees included CBA leaders AKM Fazlul Haque, Shahanoor Hossain, Bachchu Sheikh, Gafur Patwary, Shah Alam, Zulfiquar Matin, Abe Kawsar, Tofail Ahmed Chowdhury, Rustom Ali, Mohammad Ali and Motaleb Howlader.
Source: Newage
Bogra martyr’s son sues 10 ‘collaborators’
The son of a Liberation War martyr filed a case against 10 alleged collaborators in connection with the murder of his father at Narchi Fakirpara of Sariakandi upazila in Bogra on December 15, 1971. Martyr Doulatuzzaman Akhand’s son Amzad Hossain filed the case with the additional chief judicial magistrate’s court yesterday. Magistrate Saifuzzaman Hero directed the officer-in-charge of Sariakandi Police Station to record the case and submit the investigation report by February 28.T he accused are Akhtaruzzaman Sarkar, 65, of Narchi Fakirpara, his brother Khorsheduzzaman Sarkar, 60, Batu Fakir, 55, Fulu Fakir, 52, his brother Chandu Fakir, 50, Moklesur Rahman Mondol, 60, his brother Bhelu Mondol, Saheb Ali Mondol, 51, Khoka Mondol, 53, and Abed Ali Akhand, 50.
In the case statement, the compliant said the accused were collaborators and terrorists. At 8:30pm on December 15, 1971 the accused interrupted his father’s dinner and forced him to go with them at gun point.
They took his father close to Fakirpara Canal where Akhteruzzaman and Khorsheduzzaman shot his father dead after the other accused stabbed him, Amzad alleged.
The compliant also said the accused actively collaborated with the Pakistani forces, evicted locals from their homes and killed innocent people.
Source:http://thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=19768
