The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday approved charge sheet against two, including former post and telecommunications minister Aminul Haque on charge of taking bribe of US$1.708m from German engineering giant Siemens through an US expatriate.
A commission meeting yesterday approved charges against Haque and US expatriate Mizanur Rahman, a relative of the minister, for taking the bribe in exchange of getting Siemens a contract with Teletalk and mobile networking works at an international tender.
On June 7, 2012, ACC filed a case against the two with the Ramna police station under several sections of the Money Laundering Prevention Act 2002, 2009 and 2012 respectively.
According to the case statement, the minister took the bribe valued US$1.708m from Siemens to get the company a contract of US$40million at an international tender. The minister allegedly took the bribe to make Siemens the lowest bidder to get the contract and Mizanur helped the minister do this.
By abusing power and exercising influence illegally, the minister did the corruption between 2001 and 2006 when he was in power, the case statement added.
The case was earlier proved in a court of California, USA and following the matter, ACC conducted an investigation and following evidences, filed the case against the two, reads the case statement.
