FE Report
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated Wednesday eight top officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, a sister concern of Petrobangla, over graft allegations.
The Commission's deputy director Ahsan Ali quizzed them at the ACC headquarters in the city, sources at the anti-graft body said. On March 23, the ACC sent notices to them to face grilling.
The Titas Gas officials who faced grilling were its former managing director Abdul Aziz Khan, former director (operation) Engr Khalid Hasan and general managers Engr Mujibul Haque and Engr Fuad-ul-Islam, Shahinur Alam, deputy general mangers Hedayet Ullah, M Baki Billah, and M Abdul Awal Shah.
On March 10, 2014, the ACC launched a probe into the graft allegation against Petrobangla chairman Prof Dr M Hossain Monsur and 13 managing directors of its subsidies.
ACC sources said the 13 managing directors of Petrobangla's associate companies swindled over Tk 2.0 billion during carrying out development work in last four years and as the Petrobangla chairman did not take any action against them, he has to take responsibility in this connection.
The 13 associate companies of Petrobangla are Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited, Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited, Gas Transmission Company Limited, Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System Limited, Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited, Paschimanchal Gas Company Limited, Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited, Sundarban Gas Company Limited, Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited, Barapukuria Coal Mine Company and Maddhapara Granite Mining Company Limited.
