ACC interrogates 4 top Titas, Bapex officials

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated Sunday four top officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited and Bapex (Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited) over graft allegations.
The commission's deputy director Ahsan Ali grilled them from 9 am to 11.30 am at the ACC headquarters in the city, sources at the anti-graft body said. The ACC sent notices to them to face grilling recently.
The officials are Titas MD Engr M Nowshad Islam, Bapex MD M Abdul Baki, its project director Meherun Hasan and its general manager (admin) M Saifuzzaman.
The commission will quiz Bapex assistant general manager (procurement) Mohammad Ali, managing director of Sundarban Gas Company Limited (project director) Rezaul Islam and its assistant general managers Syed Nurul Huda and Engr Golam Mustofa today (Monday).
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 in the 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.