ACC serves notices on 8 Destiny officials
Friday, 29 August 2014
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has served notices on eight Destiny officials, including 7 directors of Destiny 2000 Limited, seeking their wealth accounts, reports UNB.
ACC has already sent notices asking them to submit their wealth statements to the Commission within the given time, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said Thursday.
The notices were served upon the Destiny 2000 Limited directors Gofranul Huq, Saidur Rahman, Mesbah Uddin Swapan, Syed Sazzad Hossain, Irfan Ahmed Sunny, Sheikh Tayebur Rahman and Nepal Chandra Biswas, and former treasurer of DMCSL Akbar Hossain Sumon.
All are the accused in the Destiny swindling cases.
On July 31, 2012, the ACC filed two money-laundering cases against Destiny 2000 Limited chairman Lt General (retd) M Harunur Rashid and managing director Rafiqul Amin and 20 others on charge of misappropriating investors' money amounting to Tk 32.85 billion.
ACC deputy director Mozahar Ali Sarder filed one case with Kalabagan Police Station against 12 officials of Destiny 2000 Limited, including its chairman and managing director for misappropriating over Tk 21.06 billion from the Destiny Tree Plantation Limited (DTPL).
ACC assistant director Toufiqul Islam filed another case with the same police station against 22 Destiny officials for the embezzlement of Tk 11.78 billion from the Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited (DMCSL).