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Finger pointed at Mainul

JS body blames him for Rangs deaths, charges with graft to favour family; he bins allegations

Rashioul Hasan
A parliamentary s u b -committee yesterday blamed former caretaker government adviser Mainul Hosein for the death of 13 construction workers during demolition of the Rangs Bhaban in the capital.
It observed the workers lost their life on December 9.2007, because of Mainul s arbitrary decision as the then housing and public works adviser.
It said it has minutes of the housing ministry meetings to bear out its claim.
Nasrul Hamid, chief of the sub committee, said ship-breaking workers were employed to demolish the Rangs Bhaban on Bijoy Sarani, and the decision was clearly a blunder that led to the high-rise disaster.
He was talking to reporters after a meeting at the JatiyaSangsad Bhaban.
Commissioned to investigate alleged corruption in the housing and public works minis-try over the last seven years, the five-member sub-committee will now recommend legal actions against Mainul.
“We have documents and evidence of abuse of power and irregularities by the former adviser and his family members,” observed Hamid, ruling Awami League lawmaker from Keraniganj.
Lhe allegations include grabbing of plots and apartments.
Meanwhile. Mainul Hosein has refuted all allegations
against him.
In a written statement last night, he said no-one was given plots during his one-year stint as adviser to the last caretaker government.
He dismissed the allegations of allocating hundreds of plots in Khulna and Kushtia as baseless.
He said that earlier when similar allegations were raised against him. he wanted to know who of his family was allotted plots. But he got no answer.
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"It is to be seen who is being faulted on whose wrongs," Manlul wrote on the official pad of Ittefaq Group of Publications Ltd.
At the briefing yesterday, I tamid said the committee has received complaints against Mainul from individuals and the ministries alike.
Arshad Hosein. son of the former adviser, forcibly occupied a flat at (he city’s Gulshan 1 during (he caretaker government rule.
Owner of that apartment has lately submitted a complaint to the sub-committee.
Arshad made the most of his father's power to use the apartment for business purposes though it was situated in a residential area, Hamid continued.
"He runs an advertising firm named Matra' on that apartment, disregarding objections from the flat owner."
Because of Mainul's influence. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakhkha (Rajuk) could not make the ad firm leave the flat.
Hamid said the committee has also gathered evidence that Mainul's son constructed a high-rise named Musafir' in the city's Kakrail area, violat-ingRajuk's building code.
In another example, the AL lawmaker said Mainul purchased a flat in Baridhara area hiding his wife's real name.
The former adviser also interfered in allocation of 158 plots under Khulna Development Authority.
Besides, he abused his authority in allocation of 459 plots under Kushtia Housing Authority.
He also pulled strings to get a plot for a private university in thecity's Mirpurarea.
Hamid said the s u b -committee is also probing alleged corruption in allocation of 25 bighas of land in Tejgaon industrial area for media outlets with allegiance to BNP and allies.
A hospital was planned to be built on that land. In 1996, the then prime minister
Sheikh Haslna already laid foundation of the hospital
He said the parliamentary standing committee on the housing ministry has already recommended that the allotment be cancelled.
Sub-committee members Asaduzzaman Khan and Enamul Haque were present at the press briefing.
The parliamentary standingcommittee on housing and public works ministry formed the five-member subcommittee on June 25 to investigate alleged corruption, misuse of power against former adviser Mainul Hosein and other allegations of anomalies occurred in the last seven years in the ministry and its other bodies.