A Dhaka court docket this day (24 November) sent four mature officials and one most contemporary official of Biman Bangladesh Airways to penal complex in reference to a Tk1,161 crore corruption case.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Resolve Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the divulge after rejecting their bail petitions, ACC Attorney Mir Ahmed Ali Salam told The Commercial Well-liked.
Earlier within the day, the accused surrendered earlier than the court docket and pleaded for bail.
The 5 accused are mature foremost engineer Shahid Uddin Mohammad Hanif, mature engineer officer Md Zahid Hossain, mature deputy chief engineer Md Shahjahan, foremost scheme engineer (construction) Sharif Ruhul Quddus and mature deputy chief engineer Md Shafikul Alam Siddique.
The court docket moreover issued arrest warrants in opposition to 9 at the side of Kevin John Steele, mature managing director and CEO of Biman, and Ishrat Ahmed, mature flight captain (operation) of Biman, as they were confirmed fugitives within the payment sheet.
Anti-Corruption Rate (ACC) deputy director Jesmin Akter filed the case on 6 February 2023. Investigation officer and ACC deputy director Anwarul Haque later filed payment-sheet in opposition to 16 persons.
Essentially based totally on the case paperwork, Biman Bangladesh in 2014 took two Boeing 777-200 ER aircrafts on hire from Egypt Air for 5 years. On February 2015, engine of 1 plane went down, making Biman to rob an engine from Egypt Air on rent to preserve the plane working. After one and a half years, one other engine went down, making Biman again teach one other engine from Egypt Air on rent.
After some time, one engine, which used to be brought about rent, went execrable too, making Biman to send the rotten engine to the US for repairing. Within the interval in-between, Biman had to pay the rent to Egypt Air and repairing model the US Firm as smartly.
The converse incurred an absence of TK1,164 crore by those two imperfect aircrafts.
