The Anti-Corruption Price (ACC) has determined to look at allegations of buying unlawful wealth in opposition to Ziaul Ahsan, worn director long-established (DG) of the Nationwide Telecommunication Monitoring Centre (NTMC).
A 3-member investigation crew used to be formed to this pause this present day (18 December), ACC Director Fundamental Md Akhter Hossain told newshounds.
The crew, led by ACC Deputy Director (Research and Investigation-8) Md Salahuddin, contains Assistant Director Ranjit Kumar Karmakar and Deputy Assistant Director Md Jabed Hossain Sajal.
Ziaul, who used to be a two-star ranked Bangladesh Military officer, used to be relieved from provider by the military on 6 August, a day after the Awami League govt used to be ousted in a mass uprising.
Till then, he had been serving because the chief of NTMC since 2022. Earlier than that, he served within the Snappily Motion Battalion.
Ziaul had taken the military’s refuge fearing a threat to his deepest security. The military handed him over to the police on 15 August night. Police later showed him arrested in a case filed at Original Market Police Divulge over the killing of Shahjahan Ali at some stage within the quota reform protests on 16 July.
In the remand utility, the police claimed that Gen Zia had confessed to Bangladesh buying Israeli spyware and adware Pegasus, developed by the Israeli cyber-arms firm NSO Community that is designed to be covertly and remotely installed on cell phones working iOS and Android.
The police additionally claimed that the worn NTMC DG used to be inquisitive concerning the “Aynaghor” plot, a secret penal advanced for victims of enforced disappearances and political prisoners.
Nonetheless in court, Ziaul mentioned, “I’m not interesting with any homicide, enforced disappearance. Demand any individual who has been freed from the Aynaghor to lisp that I held them there.”
Ziaul is additionally accused of state involvement within the 2013 taking pictures at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka.
Ziaul Ahsan began his militia profession as an infantry officer within the Bangladesh Military in 1991. In 2009, quickly after the Awami League came to vitality, he used to be appointed co-commander of RAB-2 whereas still conserving the contaminated of predominant.
He rapid rose during the ranks, within the raze turning into the first director long-established of the NTMC in 2022. In the course of his profession, Zia gradually climbed the ranks reportedly resulting from his favour with the old govt, despite allegations of controversial activities.
His tenure on the NTMC used to be marked by allegations of misuse of vitality, including the recording of deepest conversations of high-profile govt and opposition leaders, as well to legislation enforcement officers.
