The Anti-Corruption Commission will soon file two charge sheets against eight people, including the officials of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited, on charge of embezzling Tk585 crore through illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol calls.
The charges, however, did not have any names of high-ups against whom the cases were filed earlier.
With the charges which were approved yesterday the anti-graft body dropped the names of current and former three managing directors of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) saying that the investigation did not find their involvement.
The ACC in August last year filed four cases against 23 BTCL officials, including BTCL acting managing director Kalim Ullah, his predecessor Azizul Islam, former MDs SM Khairuzzaman, Afsarul Alam and M Abu Sayed Khan.
Of the four cases, charge sheets in the two were approved.
Involvement of BTCL former assistant divisional engineer Abu Hena Mostafa Salam was found during the probe.
Meanwhile, the ACC exempted BTCL acting managing director SOM Kalim Ullah, its former managing directors M Abu Sayeed Khan and Azizul Islam, former member (maintenance and operation) Mohammad Towfiq, former general manager Anwarul Mamun, former assistant divisional engineer M Moktar Ahmed from charges saying that their involvement were not found during the investigation.
It has also exempted Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd’s Contract Manager Asif Jahid, Relations Manager Nazrul Islam and engineer Masrurul Hakim.
The ACC officials said two of the accused – BTCL’s former divisional engineer Habibur Rahman Pramanik and former divisional engineer Ronel Chakma flew to Malaysia and Canada respectively.
On August 25, 2013, the ACC filed four cases after a commission inquiry revealed that over around Tk600 crore had been swindled through illegal VoIP businesses and erasing information from call detail records in the preceding four years.
The probe report said telecommunication officials in connection with Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd had erased incoming international call minutes from the call detail record of ITX-5 and ITX-7.
