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SHIP DISAPPEARANCE

Pac terms probe body report 'incomplete'

Staff Correspondent
Culprits in the disappearance of a ship with 12,000 metric tons of rice have yet to be identified even after seven years into the incident as a parliamentary body formed to probe the incident submitted its inconclusive report yesterday.
BNP lawmaker Manjur Qader, who heads the subcommittee, said there were no papers or document available to carry out a meaningful enquiry, and if the secretary of the ministry concerned helps him, he can still find out the reasons. The Public Accounts Committee (Pac) of the Jatiya Sangsad, which had formed the subcommittee, at a meeting yesterday rejected the probe report. It described as 'incomplete' the report that says the disappearance incident had resulted in a loss of Tk 13.30 crore to public exchequer.
Sailed from Kandla port of India, MV Hafina was coming to Chittagong, but disappeared on the way with 12,000 metric tons of rice causing a loss of Tk 13.30 crore in FY 1998-99, according to an audit objection report by the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).
Pac at yesterday's meeting also asked the subcommittee to make a complete report within a month.
Meeting sources said Shamsul Alam Pramanik, a member of the subcommittee and also a ruling BNP lawmaker, blamed the inadequacy of the report on the committee head Manjur Qader. He said Qader had submitted the report much earlier in the face of negative attitude of the other members of the committee.
Qader trying to defend his decision said that secretary of the food ministry did not co-operate in the enquiry process.
The meeting sources said Qader's comments visibly annoyed the Pac Chairman Harun Al Rashid, who asked, "Why should a Member of Parliament seek help from a secretary and what sort of work he himself has done then?"
During the meeting, seven audit objections covering fiscal years 199598 and 2000-01 and involving Tk 6.01 crore under the shipping ministry were placed before the Pac.
Besides, the committee discussed an audit objection that says Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has incurred a loss of Tk 4.06 crore because the officials concerned did not pay for oil import on time.
A probe committee formed by the shipping ministry in 2000 had blamed the BSC authorities, including its executive director (finance) and general manager (finance) for theloss. But the ministry has yet to take any action against them.
The shipping secretary could not tell the meeting why they have not taken any punitive actions against the persons responsible.
The Pac has asked the ministry to implement the recommendations of the probe committee.