ACC sues five KGDCL officials

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Monday filed a case against five officials of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited (KGDCL) including its two former managing directors on graft allegations.

ACC deputy director Rytik Saha filed the case against them with the Panchlaish Model Police Station in Chittagong, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said.

The case was filed against former managing directors Sanwar Hossain and Jamil Ahmed Alim, and deputy general managers Amir Hamza and Abdullah Al Mamun and general manager Chowdhury Hasan Habib.

According to the first information report (FIR), all the accused, in collusion with each other, appointed 57 staff on ad-hoc basis in Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited without going for any advertisement in this regard.

They unofficially gathered applications from job- seekers for their personal gains. Later, 42 staff members were regularised violating the

Employees Regularisation Rules, 1994.

However, a two-member ACC team submitted its probe report before the Commission on May 21 recommending filing of a case against former Petrobangla Chairman Dr Hossain Mansur and others in this regard. But the ACC relieved Dr Mansur of the graft allegation.

However, a competent source in the ACC earlier confirmed to the FE that the Commission recommended filing of a case against six persons, including Dr Hossain Monsur.

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