ACC grills eight Petrobangla officials

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated eight officials of Petrobangla on Tuesday in connection with the mysterious disappearance of a huge stock of coal from Barapukuria Coal Mine, reports UNB.

On August 13, some 32 officials of Petrobangla were asked to be present for interrogation at ACC in phases.

Earlier, ACC interrogated seven Petrobangla officials on August 16 in the first phase; the remaining officials will face interrogation on August 29 and 30.

The Petrobangla officials who faced the interrogation on Tuesday are- General Manager (Mine Operation) Abu Taher Mohammad Nuruzzaman Choudhury, Deputy Manager A K M Khaledul Islam, Deputy Manager (Maintenance and Operation) Morsheduzzaman, Deputy Manager (Production Management) Habibur Rahman, Deputy Manager (Mine Development) Zahedur Rahman, Deputy Manager (Ventilation Management) Sattyndranath Barman, Deputy General Manager ( Mine Planning Operation) Jobayer Ali and Manager (Security) Syed Imam Hasan.

ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam, who is serving as the investigation officer, quizzed the eight officials.

The officials who faced the interrogation earlier on August 16 were - Deputy General Manager Nazmul Haque, Manager (Coal Handling Management) Shoyebur Rahman, Manager (Production Management) Syed Masud, Deputy Manager (Maintenance and Operation) Mahbub Hossain, Assistant Manager (Production Management) Moniruzzaman, Assistant Manager (Coal Handling Management) Md.Mahbud Rashid, and Manager (Store) Md, Didarul Kabir.

Barapukuria Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant had to be shut down for the mysterious disappearance of a huge volume of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine.