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Probe report on BNP trio to be placed in JS

All-party body to ask House to recover the money from them

SHAKHAWAT LlTON and RASHIDUL HASAN
The all-party parliamentary probe committee yesterday decided to submit its report to the House on corruption by former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, his deputy Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and former chief whip Khandaker Delwar Hossain on July 7.
The probe body found evidence and proofs of the trio's "misappropriation" of Tk. 1.71 crore. They took the money as medical expenses and additional fuel allowances ignoring the law, sources in the committee claimed.
In a set of recommendations in the report,
the parliamentary body will ask the House to recover the money from Sircar, Akhtar and Delwar and file criminal cases in this connection against them if they fail to return the money, a member of the committee said.
"We decided to place the probe report in parliament on July 7. We want to read out the findings of our investigation in the House so that people can know what happened in the Parliament Secretariat in the past," Shajahan Khan, a member of the probe body, told The Daily Star.
The House will decide the next course of action based on the findings of the probe, he said.
Committee sources said the parliamentary body, probing alleged corruption in Parliament Secretariat in the last seven years, also decided to consult Speaker Abdul Hamid and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina about how the probe finds would be disclosed in the House.
During a meeting yesterday at the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, the committee started examining the constitutions of Bangladesh, India and Canada to see what actions could be recommended against Sircar, who is an incumbent legislator.
It also reviewed similar instances in the British House of Commons and actions against MPs found guilty of financial anomalies, a committee member said.
The committee is also mulling over contempt of parliament charge against them for their refusal to appear before the committee on July 27 after being summoned. a member of the committee said. Sircar and Hamid, however, contacted the committee and explained in writing why they did not appear before the committee.
Earlier, a sub-committee was formed by the all-party parliamentary probe commit tee to probe anomalies in drawing medical allowances by MPs.
The sub-committee after investigation recommended that the all-party committee ask the House to scrap Sircar's membership on grounds of ’moral turpitude" and file criminal cases against Akhtar
and Del war.
Former speaker Sircar drew medical allowance ofTk 27.86 lakh. Delwar Tk 6 lakh and Akhtar Tk 1.21 lakh "defying" the special medical attendance rules during the tenure of the last parliament.
Formed by the all-party parliamentary probe committee, another sub-committee found evidence and proofs of the trio’s taking additional fuel bills illegally. Sircar took Tk 60 lakh, Delwar Tk 40 lakh and Akhtar Tk 36 lakh as fuel allowances, in addition to what they are entitled to, the sub committee said and asked for the money to be refunded.
Besides, another subcommittee in its investigation found that the former speaker wasted a good amount of public money by appointing 42 staffs for parliamentary standing committees and gave them salaries for eight months even though parliament was non-existent in that period.
A few more allegations of financial anomalies were raised against Sircar, and Delwar.
The all-party parliamentary probe body started preparing the final report based on the findings of investigations carried out by three subcommittees. It will sit on July 5 again to finalise the report with recommendations, members of the committee said.
All of them refuted the allegation brought against them and said the probe body was formed to harass them politically.