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Bangladeshi blank passports missing in KL

High commission official in charge stays in Dhaka instead effacing probe body

Diplomatic Correspondent
Around 550 blank passports have recently gone missing from the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur prompting the authorities to form a committee to probe the incident in Malaysia.
The passport missing was noticed after the mission's newly appointed Second Secretary (Political) and custodian of passports Suchona Rani Halder left Malaysia on a 10-day leave on January 5.
Sources in the high commission and foreign ministry said a section of officials of the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur and a few others might have been behind the incident. They suspect the passports have already been sold.
The high commission has recently informed the foreign ministry that it had been finding more suspicious passports since the missing incident.
Its officials believe the passports now being carried by suspected illegal workers are the missing ones and that those travel documents bear forged signatures and stamps.
The passports went missing at a time when Malaysia has launched a nationwide crackdown on illegal immigrants since January 21. So far, 331 Bangladeshis have been detained.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur on January 24 asked Suchona in a letter to return to Kuala Lumpur immediately and appear before the committee by January 27.
She is, however, still in Bangladesh citing medical reason.
The high commission wrote her: "... you are the custodian of the passports; your office room
is inside the vault room of the stock of passport at the chancery. Since Malaysian government is now enforcing a crackdown on the detention and deportation of illegal immigrants in Malaysia the applications for manual passport have increased manifolds in last few days.
"You, as the custodian officer need to sign in the stock register and deliver passports to the passport issuing officer from the stock. In order to do that your physical presence is required.
"Linder these circumstances you are instructed to return to the post by 27 January to assist the investigation team."
Contacted on Thursday, Suchona claimed innocence and told The Daily Star that a section of the high commission officials, who were involved in the incident, was trying to make her the scapegoat.
She said she is new in the high commission and does not fully know the office activities.
Suchona, former leader of Eden College unit of pro-Awami League Chhatra League, joined the mission on October 23, 2013. Before that, she had been appointed as an assistant secretary at the foreign ministry's external affairs wing on a three-year contract on June 6,2012.