ACC okays CS against eight Biman officials

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday approved a charge sheet (CS) against eight Biman Bangladesh Airlines officials for allegedly misappropriating about Tk 15 million.
The approval was given in a meeting of the ACC, the anti-graft body Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the FE.
They were Harun-ur-Rashid, Md Golam Mostafa, Mohammad Zinnah, Abdul Malek, Nur Mohammad, MAST Chowdhury, Mir Azizur Rahman, and MA Rob.
ACC sources said, they allegedly embezzled the money by making 13 false bills from 2000 to 2005. The ACC filed a case against the officials in 2010.
Meanwhile, the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Thursday interrogated two stenographers of retired special judge Motahar Hossain, who had acquitted BNP's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman of charges in a money laundering case as part of inquiry against the judge.
ACC deputy director Harun-ur-Rashid grilled them from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon at the commission headquarters in the city, the anti-graft body Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the journalists.
Earlier, the ACC sent notices to the stenographers, Md Abu Hasan and Nurul Islam to face the grilling.
The commission has appointed Mr Rashid to carry out inquiry against the judge accusing that he has amassed illegal wealth abusing judicial power.
Mr Hossain acquitted Tarique Rahman in a money-laundering case involving Tk 204.1 million. The High Court (HC) ordered Tarique Rahman to surrender in court in the money laundering case Sunday last.
The HC accepted the petition the commission had filed appealing against the lower court verdict that acquitted Tarique Rahman of the money laundering charges.
ACC sources, however, said Mr Hossain left the country secretly and now he is staying in Malaysia.