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Staggering Wealth Rise

Anti-graft body smells rat in disclosure of 7

M RAHMAN
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found discrepancies between the wealth statements and income tax returns of three former ministers, two formerand two incumbent lawmakers ofAwami League.
The graft watchdog has collected copies of wealth statements and income tax returns of former health minister AFM Ruhal Haque, former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman, former state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan, incumbent legislators Abdur Rahman Bodi and Aslamul Haque, and former lawmakers Enamul Haque and Abdul Zabbar.
"We'll quiz the seven about their wealth statements and income tax returns. If they fail to satisfy us, the commission will serve notice on them asking them to submit wealth statements in forms prescribed by the ACC,” said a top ACC official seeking anonymity.
Following leads from newspaper reports that some lawmakers and former ministers have amassed huge fortunes over the last five years, the ACC on January 22 launched preliminary probes against the seven over alleged discrepancies in their wealth statements submitted to the Election Commission last year.
The commission on the same day appointed seven investigation officers
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to probe the allegations.
The ACC has summoned Abdul Mannan Khan, Ruhal Haque and Mahbubur Rahman to appear before it to answer questions on their wealth statements and income tax returns. Mannan has been asked to be present at the ACC headquarters today, while Ruhal and Mahbubur in next week.
The anti-graft body on Sunday interrogated lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi for three hours. The rest of the persons will be summoned soon.
Besides, the ACC asked for information from Bangladesh Bank (BB) on the banking transactions and deposits of the seven persons, their family members and dependents.
The commission has also written to district land registrars concerned for tracing apartments and plots ofland owned by the seven and their family members.
ACC investigators suspected that the seven might have invested their "ill-gotten money" in plots of land at different parts of the country.
To know about apartments and plots of land owned by Ruhal Haque
and his family members, the ACC wrote to at least 15 district land registrars, including of Satkhira and Dhaka, said a top ACC official.
The graft watchdog also sought information from Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) on vehicles owned by the seven persons and their family members, he added.
During preliminary investigations, the ACC found that wives of the seven are mostly homemakers and not involved in income generating activities.
In his wealth statement submitted to the Election Commission last year, former minister Ruhal mentioned that his homemaker wife's income increased to around Tk7.50 crore from Tk97 lakh over the last five years.
Sources in the ACC said Ruhal has been trying to make some corrections in his wife's wealth statement.
AL lawmaker Bodi in his affidavit to the EC in 2008 said his yearly income was only Tk2 lakh. But his last year's wealth statement showed that it has shot uptoTkl5 crore.
Also, his property value rose to Tk2.88 crore from Tk47.78 lakh in last five years.