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UNWATCHED DECADE

Rajuk defrauded of crores of taka

MORSHED ALI KHAN
Officials at Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha suspect crores of taka might have been embezzled over the last decade from the 47 accounts the city planners hold with three nationalised commercial banks.
The revelation came in the wake of the recent resumption of an internal audit that had been stopped
10 years ago by an office order.
Rajuk sources said the main motive behind suspending the internal audit was to "loot" public funds. Over the decade, the city witnessed a phenomenal growth, while "a group of Rajuk officials in connivance with some bank officials orchestrated the misappropriation in the finest way."
They said they are now trying to
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detect "how much has gone missing" from the accounts over the decade they characterise as having "virtually no monitoring" over transactions of crores of taka in fees, sales of plots and under other heads.
The actual picture of Rajuk corruption during the 'monitoringless decade' may be perceived only by, and after, scrutinising all the files and calculating the transactions, they said.
"Then again, the vile gang that operated here spirited away hundreds of files from the Rajuk archives, making it impossible for anyone to countercheck on any claim," said a Rajuk official requesting anonymity.
Rajuk Chairman M Shahid Alam said they fear "some misappropriation" might have taken place.
For instance, he said, during the last 10 years, hundreds of Rajuk clients paid in their fees with a threefold deposit book provided by their respective banks. In numerous cases, the client retained a fold with a bank stamp on it but the remaining two folds might have simply been destroyed and the money shared among the unscrupulous bank and Rajuk officials, who knew very well that there was no monitoring.
On an average, the chairman said, several lakhs of taka are deposited into Rajuk accounts every day under different heads.
Janata, Sonali and Agroni banks are authorised to accept payments
on behalf of Rajuk, depositing the amounts into Rajuk's designated accounts.
Rajuk has already detected that, on many occasions, crores of taka "had remained absent for months" before they were deposited into its accounts.
Shahid Alam said the thousands of clients, who made the payments, could not be taken to task, as they readily produce stamped receipts of the banks against their payments.
Rajuk has now introduced its own deposit book to stop recurrence of such fraud, he said. Every page of the new deposit books is recorded in the Rajuk computer database, making it impossible for the bank or any other person to skip detection.