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Visa forgery claiming to be govt officials

REZAUL KARIM
The Canadian High Commission in Dhaka has detected forged documents of two visa seekers who claimed to be government officials.
The documents show that the applicants are officials of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) under the Ministry of Local Government Rural Development (LGRD) and Cooperatives.
The commission has expressed concern over the forgery in a letter to Foreign Secretary Shamsher Mobin Chowdhury, said highly placed sources yesterday.
First Secretary of the Canadian High Commission Philippe de Varennes said the visa seekers also submitted two introduction letters on the foreign ministry letterhead.
Credentials of the applicants were verified and proved false, he said. "We consider the matter very seriously and would like the ministry to take appropriate action," he said.
According to the documents, Senior Assistant Secretary of the LGRD ministry Zafar Siddique issued an order on January 31 to the two executive engineers of the maintenance circle of the LGED Bhaban -- John N Mondal and Giasuddin Ahamed -- to visit Canada.
But the high commission did not find anyone named Zafar Siddique at the LGRD ministry.
The supporting documents also say the ministry permitted the ten-day visit from February 17 under a 'technology and staff training transfer' programme of the Third Rural Infrastructure Development Project (RDP-21).
The foreign ministry also issued notes verbal on the official passports (Nos. R-0772610 of John N Mondal and R-0770003 of Giasuddin Ahamed) on February 10, requesting the commission to issue visa, say the documents.
The applicants also submitted invitation letters with the visa forms and other documents. But the commission discovered that the letters were false.
The foreign secretary wrote to the local government secretary to investigate the matter.
He said submission of visa applications by the two Bangladeshis with fake passports, notes verbal, government orders and official stamps and papers is of serious concern.
The LGED said it has no engineer named Giasuddin Ahamed or John N Mondal. The LGRD ministry did not find either until yesterday.
LGRD Minister Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan ordered officials of his ministry to find leads to the incident.
The foreign ministry officials are also investigating how the applicants got official stationery.