The Anti-Corruption Commission would not have the probe report on Tk38bn embezzlement by the Destiny Group an MLM company this month, rather it expects to have the report in the first week of October, ACC Chairman M Bodiuzzaman said yesterday.
He said: “The business group has 35 companies having 722 bank accounts. It will take more time to review documents and finish the investigation.”
The chairman made the observation while talking to reporters at an informal briefing at the ACC headquarters yesterday. The two cases against Destiny have not yet produced a charge sheet even after a year of investigations.
The ACC on July 31 filed two cases with Kalabagan police station in the capital against 22 senior executives of Destiny including its President M Harun-ur-Rashid and Managing Director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin for laundering about Tk32.85b abroad. The cases were filed under the Money Laundering Prevention Act, 2004 and 2012.
Regarding the much-talked-about Padma bridge scam, the chairman said the diary of Ramesh Shaha, an accused in the Padma bridge case, was not actually a diary, rather it was like a desk calendar.
“It is not a diary, rather it is a desk calendar. The accused have only written some symbolic names on the calendar paper,” Bodiuzzaman said admitting that the probe into the case could not be completed without the diary.
He also said one of the commission officials applied for visa to observe trial and participate in the hearing of the corruption case against SNC-Lavalin employees in the Padma bridge project.
The hearing will be held on September 9 and the commission official is likely to fly to Canada a day before the hearing if he gets visa, ACC sources said.
Replying to a question about Tk36bn scam by Hallmark Group, the ACC chief said the investigation report was almost ready and the probe team would submit it to the commission next week.
The commission earlier declared three approximate dates for submission of probe, but failed to accomplish the task. It is going to be the fourth time that the commission has declared a date of submission of the probe report.
Regarding the BTCL scam, the commission chairman said they would arrest the accused people if needed.
The commission on September 3 appointed three investigation officials and two coordination officials to probe into allegations against a section of BTCL officials and some Ericson Bangladesh Ltd officials of embezzling over Tk6bn through illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business.
On August 29, the ACC filed four cases against 23 people including SOM Kalim Ullah, incumbent MD of BTCL and its four former managing directors for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of over Tk6bn through illegal VoIP business and erasing information from call detail records.
