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ACC to sue railwaygate accused

Ex-IGP asked to report wealth

Kailash Sarkar
The Anti-Corruption Commission is going to file separate cases against two key figures in the railwaygate scandal, Yusuf Ali Mridha and Omar Faruq Talukder.
The anti-graft body on Sunday approved filing the cases in a day or two, as its findings contradict the wealth statements of the duo, said ACC Deputy Director Pranab Kumar Bhattacharyya.
Faruq, assistant personal secretary to the then railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, was sacked and railway general manager (east) Mridha suspended in connection with the recovery of Tk 70 lakh in April.
Faruq was on board with Mridha and Enamul Huq, Dhaka divisional security commandant of railway, when his microbus driver parked in the BGB headquarters on the night of April 9.
As the driver started shouting that there was a stash of hard cash in the vehicle, BGB personnel detained them and seized the money, reportedly part of the bribe money collected from railway job seekers.
The incident hogged the headlines and led to the removal of veteran Awami League man Suranjit Sengupta from the ministry.
Talking to The Daily Star yesterday, ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman said the commission was firm on taking legal steps against whoever would be found suspicious or guilty.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has also asked former police chief Nur Mohammad, now ambassador to Morocco, to submit his wealth statement. MRIDHA AND FARUQ The ACC officials found proof of Mridha and Faruq
possessing a huge quantity of wealth, information about which the two concealed in the statements submitted to the ACC on June 3, and other properties that do not match their income, sources said.
In the statement, Faruq mentioned he had a Deposit Pension Scheme of Tk 1 lakh and a deposit of Tk 91.97 lakh, including the Tk 70 lakh that was found in his microbus on April 9.
Besides, he owns a 1,100 square-feet flat in the capital's Mohammadpur and 18 acres of ancestral land in Sunamganj and Netrakona.
Mridha's statement said he had Fixed Deposit Receipts (FDR) worth Tk 10 lakh and plots in the Purbachal project of Rajuk and Pirerebagh in the capital.
He also has a three-katha plot in Chittagong and a three-acre farmland in Madaripur.
His wife has a Tk 20 lakh FDR, gold ornaments worth about Tk 1.25 lakh, a two-katha plot in the capital's Bashundhara and 58-decimal land in Madaripur, 90-decimal in Manikganj andTk 2.50 lakh in cash.
NUR MOHAMMAD
The commission onAugust 8 served a notice upon the former IGP after a three-member team found evidence of his illegal wealth, sources said.
ACC Deputy Director Benjir Ahmed, who leads the probe body, told The Daily Star yesterday, “We have sent
a notice to the Morocco address of the former IGP through the foreign ministry."
"He (Nur| has been asked to submit his wealth statement within seven working days of receiving the notice. If he fails, he will be allowed anothersevendays," he said.
"We have received information about his properties from many sources. A number of individuals also have provided us with information."
The ACC carried out the probe throughout the last one year, he added.
ACC sources said letters had been sent to Bangladesh Bank and different other banks, Land Office, National Board of Revenue and other offices concerned, asking for information about the bank balance as well as properties of Nur Mohammad.
Many offices have already responded to the ACC queries.
The properties he allegedly amassed include 13-acre land, a house built on a 20-bigha plot and Tk 15 crore fish project in Kishoreganj, five flats in the capital's Mohammadpur and Bailey Road, land worthTk9 crore in the city's Pallabi and a 30-bigha plot of land in Gazipur, theACCofficialsaid.
The ACC says it also came to know about huge quantities of other properties of the former police chief and various irregularities by his office while he was police chief.