Acquiring huge wealth, corruption : ACC files case against former addl chief engineer of LGED Mojibur Rahman
AB Razzak
Former Additional Chief Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) Mojibur Rahman Sikder adopted a different strategy to legitimize illegal assets.
Although he was not saved in the end. According to the ACC, the engineer accepted 203.5 decimal of land donation worth around one and a half crore rupees from tea sellers, drink sellers, grocers, carpenters, farmers and expatriate workers.
Although none of those who gave him these lands are his blood relatives. Additional Chief Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) Mojibur Rahman Sikder was working at Agargaon in the capital. His village home is Madaripur. He lives with his family at Ramna Siddheswari Road in Dhaka.
On Tuesday (May 14) ACC's Dhaka Integrated District Office, Deputy Director Jasmine Akhter filed a case against engineer Mojibur Rahman Sikdarar as a plaintiff for acquiring illegal wealth. A senior source of the ACC confirmed this information.
According to the statement of the case, currently going to PRL. Mojibur Rahman Sikdar accepted 203.5 percent of land worth Tk 1 crore 24 lakh 4 thousand through Hebabil ewajanama deed from tea seller, bean seller, grocery shopkeeper, carpenter, farmer and expatriate worker based on 18 documents to legitimize illegal income.
But with the document donors. Mojibur Rahman has no blood relation. Considering the financial condition of the donor and recipient of the deed, in the light of the accepted statement, the said Hebabil Awaz deed is not acceptable.
On the other hand, he could not show proper records in support of Tk. Due to these reasons, engineer Mojibur Rahman Sikder has been accused of acquiring illegal wealth of Tk 4 crore 20 lakh 37 thousand 528 in total in the case.
Accused Md. Mujibur Rahman Sikdar declared 10 crore 78 lakh 90 thousand 936 taka in terms of immovable and immovable assets.
During verification, information of total immovable assets of Tk 12 crore 2 lakh 94 thousand 936 was found in his name. That is, he has hidden the information of the remaining 1 crore 24 lakh 4 thousand rupees. On the other hand, the ACC got the information of the net assets of 12 crore 86 lakh 36 thousand rupees obtained with the search expenses. Out of which 8 crore 65 lakh 98 thousand 477 assets are found in legitimate sources.
The ACC has found evidence that the remaining 4 crore 20 lakh 37 thousand 528 taka are assets outside of known income.
He has been charged under Section 27(1) and Section 26(2) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004 for furnishing false and baseless information in the asset declaration filed.
