The Anti-Corruption Charge (ACC) has made up our minds to open an inquiry in opposition to broken-down agriculture minister Abdus Shahid on allegations of corruption, land grabbing, collecting unlawful wealth and abuse of energy.
The anti-graft physique took the decision this day (8 September), a senior ACC legit told The Alternate Identical outdated.
In step with rate insiders, Abdus Shahid has violated authorities laws thru abuse of energy, corruption, and varied irregularities. He allegedly grabbed land from the Wooded arena Division to save tea gardens and build in street lights and deep tube wells in those gardens at the authorities’s expense.
Evidence suggests he has gathered crores of taka in wealth, with properties registered below the names of his wife and formative years, collectively with properties and residences in just a few areas in the country as successfully as in Canada, ACC sources said.
Furthermore, an intelligence investigation has preliminarily verified knowledge about his abundant unlawful sources, both domestically and out of the country, collectively with the acquisition of a house in the “Begum Para” neighbourhood in Canada’s Toronto.
For this reason, the rate has made up our minds to delivery an investigation into these allegations in opposition to the broken-down minister.
Besides, a choice has also been made to study broken-down member of parliament Habibur Rahman of the Bogura-5 constituency and Maqsood, personal assistant to broken-down agriculture minister Abdur Razzaque.
Habibur and Maqsood are accused of acquiring unlawful wealth of their contain names, as successfully as in the names of his wife and relatives, thru corruption and abuse of energy.
The rate has made up our minds to open an investigation after an intelligence file in the muse confirmed the existence of a lot unlawful sources both all the draw thru the country and out of the country.
