ACC asks 12 to submit wealth reports

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday served notices to a dozen of health department, different medicals and medical college employees and wives of eight of them to submit their wealth statements with the commission.

In the list of ACC suspects, Directorate General of Health Services driver Abdul Malek and his wife Nargis Begum are also included.

The commission took the decision to serve notices to these people after its primary inquiry found that they allegedly accumulated illegal wealth misusing their powers and positions, ACC director for public relations Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee told reporters.

He said that the commission took the decision on September 15 and served the notices on Monday asking  the suspects to submit their wealth statements within 21 days.

The suspects are — Directorate General of Health Services’ account officer M Mujibul Haq Munsi and his wife Rifat Akter, DGHS data entry operator Tofail Ahmed Bhuyan and his wife Khadiza Akter, 250 Bedded General Hospital, Gopalganj administrative officer Obaidur Rahman and his wife Bilkich Rahman, Faridpur Medical College staff nurse Rehena Akter, Rangpur Medical College Hospital accountant Emdadul Haque and his wife, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases administrative officer M Mahmuduzzaman and his wife Sabina Yesmin, Shaheed Taj Uddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital, Gazipur sore keeper Nazim Uddin and his wife Feroza Begun, DGHS office assistant Kamrul Hasan and his wife Umme Habiba, Sheikh Sayera Khatun Medical College and Hospital, Gopalganj stenographer Saiful Islam, director (health) office, Barishal assistant chief statistical officer Meer Rayhan Ali and Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital accountant M Anower Hossain.

The commission director Sayed Iqbal Hossain served the notices, said Pranab.

The commission served the notices just a day after the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Malek on

different charges, including fake currency trading, possession of illegal arms and extortion.

ACC secretary Md Dilwar Bakth told reporters that the commission was conducting an inquiry against Malek

over his alleged accumulation of illegal wealth since 2019.

Corruption in health sector came into the spotlight after several irregularities in the DGHS’s procurement regarding COVID-19 treatment was disclosed.

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