The ACC and the administration were shaken after media reports about ex-Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal’s Caravan Bazar extortion of Tk 1.5 crore per month, police recruitment, bribery and recruitment trade. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an investigation against Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and six other officials on charges of syndicated bribery and recruitment trade.
The rest are Asaduzzaman’s former PS Additional Secretary Harun Or Rashid Biswas, Joint Secretary Dhananjay Kumar Das, Administrative Officer Molla Ibrahim Hossain, Assistant Private Secretary Monir Hossain and Public Relations Officer Sharif Mahmud Apu. Deputy Director (Public Relations) Md. Aktarul Islam confirmed that this decision was taken from the ACC head office on August 15.
An investigation team headed by ACC Deputy Director Md Jahangir Alam has been constituted to investigate the complaint.
Meanwhile, in the search where the illegal money of Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal is deposited, the name of the Metropolitan Christian Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., known as the Swiss Bank of Bangladesh established by his close associate Augustin Purification, has come out. A reliable source claims that Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal’s ill-gotten gains of thousands of taka are deposited in The Metropolitan Christian Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. Also, the source confirmed that the illegal money of several police officers of Tejgaon circle and Gazipur police is deposited here. Augustine Purification Asaduzzaman Khan was very close and intimate of Kamal. With the help of Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, he illegally occupied two cooperatives and looted thousands of crores of rupees and smuggled them to different countries including America. Under his patronage, he has taken the law courts into his own hands. He has run a steam roller of oppression on many in the Christian community and the cooperative arena for not supporting his injustice. Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal blessed, no one opened their mouths in fear. Augustine Purification is the embodiment of terror in the cooperative arena.
Augustin was one of the accomplices of Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal in killing and torturing the students of the anti-discrimination student movement recently. Another source claimed that Asaduzzaman Khan had spent crores of rupees to suppress the movement of Augustine Purification students in favor of Kamal. Augustin installed a mural of Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at the head office of Metropolitan Christian Co-operative Housing Society Ltd. After the fall of the Awami League government, the mural was torn down again.
Asaduzzaman Khan has called upon the Anti-Corruption Commission, Financial Intelligence Unit of Bangladesh Bank, NSI, DGFI and anti-discrimination student movement to conduct operations in the Metropolitan Christian Cooperative Housing Society Ltd., known as the Swiss Bank of Bangladesh established by Augustin Purification. Christian communities and conscious cooperatives.
It should be noted that Muslims and other non-Christians are depositing the illegally earned black money of government officials at high interest rates. The interest rate against MCCHSL’s deposits is more than double the prevailing interest rate of banks. Interest up to 15% is paid. In the audit report of the Directorate of Cooperatives, it has been ordered to determine the interest rate of the deposit in accordance with the circular of the registrar and the prevailing interest rate of the bank. Corrupt government officials of various departments including officials, cooperatives directorate find it safe to deposit their earned black money here. In this case, deposits from non-Christians are accepted in a special process using the ID of Christian members. In case of membership or deposit of Christians, marriage certificate of the church in case of married and in case of unmarried. The baptismal certificate of the church must be submitted. And false affidavits of being Christians were made in the name of Muslim and other non-Christian depositors and stored in the office as documents. They adopt a novel method of Christianization of documents just to deposit black money. MCCHSL is known as the “Switch Bank” of Bangladesh as it is a reliable institution for keeping black money safely.
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