DHAKA, Dec 10, 2019 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today
summoned 11 engineers of Public Works Department (PWD) to face its
questioning as there were allegations that they helped GK Shamim in getting
tenders and amassed illegal wealth.
ACC director Syed Iqbal Hossain sent a notice to the PWD chief engineer
asking them to be present at the ACC headquarters here on December 18, 19 and
23, ACC deputy director (public relations) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told
BSS.
ACC will interrogate PWD additional chief engineer Utpal Kumar Dey,
superintending engineers Rukan Uddin and Abdul Momen Chowdhury, and executive
engineer Sawpan Chakma on December 18, while executive engineers Mohammad
Shawkat Ullah, Mohammad Fazlul Haque, Abdur Kader Chowdhury and Md Afsar
Uddin on December 19.
PWD executive engineers Md Ilias Ahmed and Fazlul Haque and deputy
assistant engineer Ali Akbar Sarkar will be questioned on December 23.
According to ACC officials, there were allegations against the PWD
engineers that they took bribe from GK Shamim and helped him get tender works
of the public agency.
On September 20 last, Rapid Action Battalion arrested Shamim for alleged
extortion and tender manipulation.
On September 26, Shamim and his bodyguards were shown arrested in a money
laundering case.
Earlier, the elite force raided his house and office in the city’s Niketan
and seized eight firearms, a huge amount of ammunition, fixed deposit
receipts (FDRs) worth Taka 165 crore, about Taka 1.8 crore in cash, a large
stash of US and Singaporean dollars and some foreign liquour.