The Anti-Corruption Commission Tuesday appointed investigation officials to probe into allegations against a section of BTCL officials and some Ericson Bangladesh Ltd officials, of embezzling Tk6bn through illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business.
ACC Commissioner M Shahabuddin told Dhaka Tribune Tuesday that the commission appointed ACC Deputy Directors Mahamudul Hasan, SM Shahidur Rahman and Jahangir Alam as investigation officials, who will also coordinate with ACC Directors Tawhidul Islam and M Moniruzzaman.
On August 29, the ACC filed four cases against 23 people, including SOM Kalim Ullah, the current Managing Director of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL), and four former managing directors of BTCL, for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of over Tk6bn through illegal VoIP business and erasing information from call detail records
The ACC has found that a group of BTCL officials colluded with officials of the multinational company Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd to embezzle money by erasing incoming international call minutes from call detail record of ITX-5 and ITX-7 at the capital’s Mohakhali
