The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) personnel detained six government officials and employees in five districts on Tuesday for their involvement in bribery and accumulation of illegal wealth.
The commission arrested S M Mahmudur Rahman, a divisional accountant at Bridge Design Department-1, from Dhaka in connection with acquiring illegal property worth Tk 7,058,780.
He was detained following filing of a graft case against him with Ramna Police Station on June 23, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.
Mr Rahman allegedly accumulated the wealth while he was a superintendent of Works Audit Directorate.
Besides, the ACC arrested Moksed Ali, 65, a former inspector of the Office of Deputy Tax Commissioner under Tax Circle-2 in Mymensingh, based on a case filed against him there on September 18.
He was caught for allegedly accumulating wealth amounting to Tk 7,750,144 beyond known sources, and concealing information of Tk 3,357,460 in his wealth statement.
The commission also arrested a former sub-inspector (SI) of police Md Abdul Jalil from Akua area of Mymensingh in a case filed against him for accumulating illegal wealth amounting to Tk 5,769,482.
The ACC arrested Md Rezaul Karim Baig, an inspector of Income Tax Circle-31 of Tax Zone-2 in Chattogram. He was caught with Tk 20,000 bribe money from Agrabad area of the port-city.
A team from the ACC Integrated District Office (IDO) in Khulna arrested general manager of Khalishpur Jute Mills Ltd Md Mostafa Kamal while receiving Tk 10,000 as bribe.
Another team from the ACC IDO in Dinajpur nabbed a surveyor of Dinajpur administration office Md Al-Amin with Tk 20,000 bribe money.
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