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Ministry car, Tk 70 lakh, some puzzles

Staff Correspondent
At around 11:30pm on Monday, a railway ministry car pulled over at the main entrance to the Pilkhana BGB headquarters in the capital and its
driver hollered that there were stashes of bribe money in the vehicle.
BGB personnel on guard at the gate searched the car and foundTk 70 lakh. They seized the money and detained the driver, Ali Azam, and three others who turned out to be railway minister's Assistant Personal Secretary (APS) Omar Faruq Talukder,
Bangladesh Railway General Manager (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and its Chief Commandant Enamul Huq, said sourcesINEWS
in police and the BGB.
Azam, the driver of APS Omar, drove the vehicle carrying the APS and two other officials to gate-4 at Jhigatola after they refused to give him Tk 5 lakh as a share of the money, the sources said.
The detainees were released at around 1:00pm yesterday.
Wishing anonymity, a senior official of Dhaka Metropolitan Police said the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel had informed them about the incident and asked them to take the detainees in police custody.
But police did not respond, as no case had been filed in this connection, the official said.
Despite repeated attempts, neither Omar Faruq nor Yusuf Ali could be reached over the phone.
No official statements on the incident have come from police or the railway ministry.
UNB reports: Faruq said over the phone that he was carrying Tk 25-30 lakh, which belonged to his brother-in-law. But he did not say anything about the source of the money.
Maj Gen Anwar Hossain, director general of the BGB, told The Daily Star that the BGB men detained the four on suspicion. "They were freed after their identities were verified."
It was a misunderstanding, he added.
Railway Minister Suranjit Sengupta told journalists yesterday that he had formed two committees to probe the incident.
"Joint Secretary (Admin-
istration) Shashi Bhushan Singha and my Personal Secretary Akhtaruzzaman will be in charge of the two committees," said the minister.
The committees were asked to submit reports within 15 working days.
The minister said he had heard that the driver was trying to abduct his APS, Omar Faruq.
Bangladesh Railway Director General Mohammad Abu Taher, who was out of the capital, told The Daily Star that he had been informed about the incident.
"I shall try to get the details after I reach Dhaka tomorrow [today],” he said.
Meanwhile, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the ruling party men broke all records of corruption, as bags full of money were found in the cars of lawmaker and minister.
“Think how much money is being looted...76 lakh taka has been found in the car of a minister's assistant personal secretary. Another 80 lakh taka was found in a lawmaker's car," he said at a discussion organised by Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal in the capital.
He urged ruling party lawmakers and ministers to disclose their wealth.
The BNP leader said at least Tk 400 crore was required to set up a bank, and ruling party leaders earned that money within onlyfouryears.
"People want to know about their wealth. How did they get that huge amount of money?”