DHAKA, Dec 12, 2019 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today
arrested 13 people, including former executive engineer of Public Works
Department (PWD) Md Masudul Alam, in a graft case filed over swindling money
from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s housing project.
An ACC team in its drive arrested them from different parts of Dhaka
city today, ACC spokesman and deputy director Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told
BSS.
The other arrestees are: PWD divisional engineers Ahmed Sazzad Khan,
Tahajjud Hossain and Mostafa Kamal, deputy assistant engineers Abu Sayed,
Jahidul Haque, Shafiqul Islam and Rowshan Ali, assistant engineers Shumon
Kumar Nandi, Morshed Tareq and Aminul Islam, Majid and Sons owner Asif
Hossain, and Sazin Construction Limited owner Md Shahadat Hossain.
According to a probe report of the PWD, three construction firms
plundered Taka 36.4 crore from the project.
Earlier, ACC deputy director Nasir Uddin filed a case with Pabna
integrated office of the national anti-graft agency for plundering money of
the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant’s housing project.
According to media reports, the purchase prices of various items to
furnish the project’s 966 apartments for the Russian engineers and others
were abnormally higher than the market prices.
The reports claimed that each pillow was bought at Taka 5,957, and the
cost of carrying it to an apartment was Taka 760.
The cost of an electric stove was Taka 7,747 while the carrying cost of
it from the ground floor to the top one was Taka 6,650, the reports said,
adding the price of an electric iron was Taka 4,154 while the carrying cost
Taka 2,945.