ACC summons Caab chief engineer

Staff Correspondent: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned Civil Aviation Authority Bangladesh (Caab) chief engineer Sudhendu Bikash Goswami for interrogation over his alleged involvement in irregularities, corruption and embezzlement of funds.

He will have to appear before the Commission’s head office in the capital at 10:00am on June 10 and 12.

ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya confirmed this to risingbd.com on Monday.

ACC assistant director Salam Ali Mollah will quiz Sudhendhu on June 10 while the chief engineer will face interrogation by another assistant director Khairul Haque on June 12.

According to the ACC, Sudhendu amassed huge amount of money through irregularities and corruption in maintenance, construction and purchase work, and embezzlement of funds.

He will have to turn up with the list of projects, and costs in detail in purchase for the fiscal years of 2015-16 and 2016-17, audit report of fiscal year 2016-17, expenditure for maintenance and construction  and allocation amount in the IT sector and its implemented works.

On October 19 last year, the ACC interrogated two Caab engineers, including its chief engineer, for their suspected involvement in corruption.

An ACC team, led by its director Mir Joynul Abedin Shebly, grilled the Caab chief engineer and its superintendent engineer M Maksudul Islam.


risingbd/Dhaka/June 4, 2018/MA Rahman/AI