ACC files 15 corruption cases against 24 CDA staff
Thursday, 9 October 2008
CHITTAGONG, Oct 8 (UNB): The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) filed 15 corruption cases against 24 persons, including engineers, staff and contractors of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), on charge of misappropriating CDA funds and committing irregularities in road construction.
After preliminary investigation, ACC deputy assistant director Shamsuddin Ahmed filed the cases with Kotwali thana Wednesday against the accused, seven of them CDA engineers, on charge of misappropriating Tk 8.07 million and the irregularities in road works.
CDA chief engineer Iqbal Hossain Majumder, superintending engineer Hassan Bin Shamsher and assistant engineer Nurul Amin Bhuiyan were among the engineers sued for corruption under the ongoing countrywide purge in the interim period.
The rest of the accused are contractors and their staffers.
According to the anti-graft watchdog body, CDA started its construction work on a 6-kilometre road from Oxygen crossing in the city to Kuwaish on Kaptai road at a cost of Tk 50 million through 15 sub-tenders in November 2001. It set a target to complete the project works by June 2007.
After preliminary investigation, ACC deputy assistant director Shamsuddin Ahmed filed the cases with Kotwali thana Wednesday against the accused, seven of them CDA engineers, on charge of misappropriating Tk 8.07 million and the irregularities in road works.
CDA chief engineer Iqbal Hossain Majumder, superintending engineer Hassan Bin Shamsher and assistant engineer Nurul Amin Bhuiyan were among the engineers sued for corruption under the ongoing countrywide purge in the interim period.
The rest of the accused are contractors and their staffers.
According to the anti-graft watchdog body, CDA started its construction work on a 6-kilometre road from Oxygen crossing in the city to Kuwaish on Kaptai road at a cost of Tk 50 million through 15 sub-tenders in November 2001. It set a target to complete the project works by June 2007.