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ACC clears chargesheets against 10 BTCL officials(United News of Bangladesh Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved chargesheets in two cases against 10 BTCL officials on charge of swindling over Tk 585 core erasing the call-detail record from the call list of the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL). On completion of investigation, the ACC investigation officers submitted reports to the Commission in November 2013, and the ACC at a recent meeting approved the chargesheets against the BTCL officials, sources at the Commission said. The Commission dropped the names of some BTCL top officials from the cases saying that the ACC during its investigation found that they were not involved in the graft. Two are named in both the chargesheets. The BTCL officials named in one of the chargesheets are ex-divisional engineers M Khurshed Hasan and Habibur Rahman Pramanik, ex-assistant divisional engineers M Sajjad Hossain, Khan M Kawsar and Runel Chakma and assistant divisional engineer Manisha Begum. The names of former divisional engineer Habibur Rahman Pramanik, ex-assistant divisional engineers M Badiur Rahman, Runel Chakma and Abu Hena Mustofa Salam are there in another chargesheet. The ACC is currently carrying out investigation into two other graft cases. On Aug 29, 2013, the ACC filed four cases against 22 people, including four top officials of the BTCL, on charge of swindling over Tk 607 crore by erasing international incoming call lists. BTCL acting managing director SM Kalimullah and its former managing directors Dr Abu Syed Khan, Absar Alam and Kabiruzzaman were sued in connection with the massive graft. According to the first information report (FIR), the accused swindled over Tk 607 crore by erasing international incoming call lists from the International Truck Exchange (ITX) of BTCL during December 2009 to November 2012. ACC sources said the International Truck Exchange (ITX) of the BTCL receives the international incoming calls through the international gateway and the ITX diverts the calls to the ICX (Interconnection Exchange) to take it to the mobile operators. The incoming call list is recorded at both ITX and ICX stages. But, scrutinising the incoming call list of ITX-5 and ITX-7 located at Mohakhali during December 2009 to November 2012 in both ITX and ICX parts, the BTCL inquiry team found massive inconsistency. On November 5, 2012, the ACC also filed five cases against 14 people, including six BTCL officials, on charge of misappropriating public money of Tk 205 crore. |