ACC grills two PDBF officials

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated two officials of Palli Daridro Bimochon Foundation (PDBF) Sunday for their alleged involvement in misappropriation of money of climate change fund.
The officials are Managing Director of Solar Project AAM Anwaruzzaman and former administration officer of human resource development of the PDBF Sufia Begum.
ACC Assistant Director Shamsul Alam quizzed them for over an hour from 12:00 noon at the commission head quarters in city's Segun Bagicha.
As per allegation received by the anti-graft watchdog, crores (tens of millions) of taka, which was provided for addressing climate change, had been embezzled in the PDBF.
A total of 55 non-government organisations (NGOs) were given work from climate change resilience fund but there is no existence of 10 NGOs, it was mentioned in the complaint.
These 10 NGOs received Tk 20.95 million in total from Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (BCCTF), according to relevant sources.
On October 3 last year, TIB (Transparency International Bangladesh), an international non-government organisation working as a catalyst of social movement against corruption, revealed at a press conference that they found no existence of 10 NGOs, which were given allocation of projects under BCCTF to face climate change vulnerability.
Another report adds: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) is going to file a case against seven bank officials for allegedly embezzling Tk 9 million from Sonali Bank.
At its regular meeting on Sunday, the anti-corruption watchdog approved the proposal of filing a case against five officials of Prime Bank and two of Sonali Bank, ACC sources said.
ACC deputy director Shahin Ara Momtaz started inquiry into the graft allegation against the bank officials in 2012.