An official of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has said that the commission will serve a notice to Abdul Khaleque, father of collapsed Rana Plaza owner Sohel Rana, within a day or two asking him to submit his wealth statement.
“Although the commission took the decision to serve notices to Sohel Rana and his father Abdul Khaleque for their wealth statements eight months back, the ACC could not do so due to legal complications,” the official added.
“We had not sent the notices to them since they [Sohel Rana and his father Abdul Khaleque] were in jail. Under ACC regulations, it is not lawful to serve notice to anyone who is in jail,” he said, adding that a notice has already been served to Rana’s mother Morjina Begum.
“Since Khaleque is now on bail, a commission meeting has approved the notice to be served against him. The notice would be served within a day or two,” he said.
On September 12 last year, the High Court granted an interim bail to Abdul Khaleque in one of the two cases filed against him over the Rana Plaza building collapse on April 24.
Earlier on May 23, a probe team submitted a primary inquiry report to the ACC, which saidt Sohel Rana owns 23 bank accounts, two brick fields and two commercial towers and land plots in Savar. Rana also owns an oil mill named Rana Oil Mill at Savar bus stand.
Rana has personal accounts with Exim Bank, National Bank, Dutch Bangla Bank and BRAC Bank, where he has five loan accounts and one Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) account worth Tk35 lakh, said the report.
The eight-storey Rana Plaza, which housed five garment factories, claimed 1,135 lives when it collapsed on April 24 last year in Savar. The rescue went on for 20 days, with 2,438 people being rescued from the debris, but relatives of the victims claim that hundreds of victims are still missing.
