Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) Chairman GM Jainal Abedin Bhuiya yesterday skipped an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogation on an inquiry into the illegal handover of a government land worth Tk300 crore in Gulshan by corrupt Rajuk officials.
But three officials of United Group - Chairman Hasan Mahmud Raja, Vice-chairman Abul Kalam Azad and Director (estate) Nazmus Sadat Selim - and Rajuk member (estate) Abdul Hai faced the interrogation.
ACC inquiry official and Deputy Director SM Rafiqul Islam questioned them for one and a half hours at the commission’s headquarters in the capital’s Segun Bagicha.
Requesting anonymity, an ACC official told the Dhaka Tribune that the United Group officials and the Rajuk official submitted documents claiming that they were not involved in the handover of the land to 27 fake heirs.
He said the commission would take the next steps after assessing the documents.
According to the complaint submitted to the ACC, some corrupt Rajuk officials did the mutation of the land in Gulshan in the name of a dead person without any valid documents. The mutation was done for Tk10 crore only.
Proceedings of 12 cases filed in this regard are now underway and the High Court has also announced a stay order.
Before the disposal of the cases, a person named Abul Kalam Azad, who identified himself as a United Group official, attempted to do the mutation of the land in the names of 27 persons showing them as legal heirs of the property.
ACC’s Gulshan Anwar yesterday also questioned eight Prime Bank officials in a case filed over embezzlement of around Tk4 crore from the bank.
The commission’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said the eight bank officials are Deputy Managing Director Habibur Rahman, former deputy managing director SM Anisul Kabir, Vice-president Mojahid Kabir, Executive Vice-president Moshiur Rahman, Assistant Vice-president Gias Uddin Ahmed, Senior Executive Officer Fazlur Rahman Patwary, Executive Officer Lutfun Nahar and Senior Officer Abdus Sabur.
The case was lodged on March 9 this year against the bank’s former senior executive officers Mir Saiful Islam and Shahjahan Ali Sarker, and former employees Salman F Rahman and Julfikar Ali. They were accused of cheating and tampering with vouchers to misappropriate Tk39,219,014.
The case, which was filed with Motijheel police station, was later transferred to the ACC.
ACC’s Pranab Kumar said the commission had already collected all documents of the investigation carried out by police.
