The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed two separate cases against 15 people including three government contractors for their involvement in embezzling over Tk 400 million from United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) using work order of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC).
According to the ACC inquiry, Rana Builders Proprietor Mohammad Alam got work order of a CCC infrastructure development project titled "Improvement of Port Connecting Road" at Tk 508.47 million as the lowest bidder in 2017.
Showing that work order and creating fake documents, Mr Alam and his subcontracting partner, SA Trading Proprietor Saleh Ahmed, took loans from UCBL Cumilla branch in two phases - Tk 229.70 million and Tk 233.50 million (including interests as of April, 2022) with the intention to embezzle.
Besides, the contractor also intentionally caused Tk 70 million loss to the CCC authority by dilly-dallying the construction of the port connecting road.
Seven people were accused in the first case - Jakir Enterprise Proprietor Md Jakir Hossain, Rana Builders Proprietor Mohammad Alam, bankers MD Sarwar Alam, Md Anisuzzaman, Saiful Alam Majumdar, Mahmudul Islam, and Debu Bosh.
Meanwhile, eight people were accused in the second case -- Rana Builders Proprietor Mohammad Alam, Jakir Enterprise Proprietor Md Jakir Hossain, SA Trading Proprietor Saleh Ahmed, bankers MD Sarwar Alam, Md Anisuzzaman, Saiful Alam Majumdar, Mahmudul Islam and Debu Bosh.
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