CMP recommends suspension of ADC Karmul

CHATTOGRAM, July 12 (UNB): Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has written to the police headquarters in Dhaka recommending suspension of Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Crime) Mohammad Kamrul Hasan after an internal police probe confirmed his involvement in graft.
The recommendation of the suspension came after a court order confiscating his and his wife's wealth worth Tk 110 billion earlier.
Abdul Mannan Mia, additional police commissioner (crime and operations) of the CMP, confirmed the matter on Thursday night, saying that the internal probe body quizzed ADC Kamrul and others about the alleged graft.
Accused Kamrul is now attached to the Public Order Management Division of the CMP and earlier he was posted at the prison (prosecution) of the Chattogram Metropolitan Court.
Along with Kamrul, the CMP recommended taking punitive actions against the then prison's inspector Atiqur Rahman, he said.
According to the probe report, Kamrul during his tenure in charge of the hajatkhana of metro court, about Tk 1.3 million was withdrawn from the government treasury from 2021 to June 2023 as food bills for the detainees in the custody of the metro court through corruption.
On July 9, a Chattogram court ordered the seizure of assets worth over Tk 110 million of ADC Kamrul and his wife Saima Begum.
The court ordered the confiscation of assets worth about Tk 110 million, which was acquired allegedly beyond the couple's known sources of income.
According to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sources, Kamrul joined the Bangladesh Police Department in 1989 as a sub-inspector and was finally promoted to the current position.
During the investigation, it was found that Kamrul had acquired assets worth Tk about 140 million, including movable assets worth Tk about 130 millione and immovable assets worth Tk 123 million.
In contrast, Kamrul's legitimate sources of income amounted to about Tk 48 million, revealing a disparity of Tk 98 million. He was found to have have accumulated assets worth Tk 97 million beyond his known income sources.
Similarly, Saima Begum has assets worth Tk 25.3 million, including immovable assets worth Tk 0.12 million and movable assets worth about 20 million. Against the acquisition of this wealth, her legitimate and acceptable source of income was found to be Tk 4.0 million. The investigation found assets worth Tk 16 million beyond her known sources of income.
The ACC, after its preliminary investigation, found sufficient evidence of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income and submitted an application to the court to seize these assets under Section 26(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004, said the ACC lawyer.