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On Apr 12, 11:23 am, William Gomes <williamgomes....@gmail.com> wrote:
> BANGLADESH: Chief of army staff into the corruption business
> <http://www.williamgomes.org/?p=769>
>
> On April 12, 2012 at around 11:30pm, railway ministry car pulled over at
> the main entrance to the Pilkhana BGB headquarters in the capital and its
> driver Ali Azam hollered that there were stashes of bribe money in the
> vehicle. BGB personnel on guard at the gate searched the car and found Tk
> 70 lak
>
> The BGB personal seized the money and detained the driver, Ali Azam, and
> three others who turned out to be railway minister's Assistant Personal
> Secretary (APS) Omar Faruq Talukder, Bangladesh Railway General Manager
> (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and its Chief Commandant Enamul Huq.
>
> It was reported in the media that Azam, the driver of APS Omar, drove the
> vehicle carrying the APS and two other officials to gate-4 at Jhigatola
> after they refused to give him Tk 5 lakh as a share of the money .The
> detainees were released at around 1:00pm yesterday.
>
> *Inside story:*
>
> Credible sources said the car was moving towards the Sudha Sadan. It was
> promised by the railway minister to give Tk 5 lakh at the end of the
> railway recruitment business.
>
> When the driver find out that he was betrayed he revealed the corruption
> money to the BGB personals.
>
> When BGB personals in the gate -4 find out a large amount of money they
> called up several senior officials. Maj Gen Anwar Hossain, director general
> of the BGB was subsequently informed about the recovery of the money.
>
> On the mean time be railway minister's Assistant Personal Secretary (APS)
> Omar Faruq Talukder was allowed to call the railway minister and he
> informed what is happening in the gate 4.
>
> Suranjit Sen Gupta quickly cut the line and he call up the Prime Minister
> Sheikh Hasina and Sheikh Selim.
>
> That made a huge difference into the scene. Defence Adviser Maj Gen (Retd)
> Tarique Ahmed Siddique immediately called General Md Abdul Mubeen, chief of
> army staff of Bangladesh Army.
>
> Defence Adviser Maj Gen (Retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique quoting Prime
> Minister Sheikh Hasina said all detained person should be released as soon
> as possible with the recovered money. Defence Adviser Maj Gen (Retd)
> Tarique Ahmed Siddique also said made it sure the incident should not be
> made public.
>
> General Md Abdul Mubeen called up several officials and made it sure that
> media should not be informed about the incident and the detained persons
> with recovered money get released.
>
> Railways Minister Suranjit Sengupta publicly denied his involvement with
> the corruption. Suranjit Sengupta said the incident of recovering money
> from the car of his assistant personal secretary (APS) was part of a "well
> orchestrated conspiracy" to humiliate him politically.
>
> Recently Bangladesh railway department published advertisement for
> recruiting 7,140 personnel and it has, so far been able to complete
> recruitment of only 1,771 persons. The money was collected as bribe from
> different people looking for jobs.
>
> Driver Ali Azam had taken to DGFI custody.Railway minister's Assistant
> Personal Secretary (APS) Omar Faruq Talukder, Bangladesh Railway General
> Manager (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and its Chief Commandant Enamul Huq was
> told by prime minister's office that if they keep silent they will be
> awarded and the Prime minister's office will made sure of impunity.
>
> *Previous Extortion allegations and criminal charges:*
>
> On April 9, 2007, it was announced that Bangladesh police were
> investigating extortion charges against Hasina. She was accused of forcing
> Bangladeshi businessman Tajul Islam Farooq to pay bribes before his company
> could build a power plant in 1998. Farooq said that he paid Hasina 30
> million takas (US$441,000, or €383,211) to get his project approved by the
> government, according to a police official.
>
> On July 16, 2007, Hasina was arrested by state police at her home and taken
> before a local court in Dhaka.She was accused of extortion and denied bail
> on the same day, and was held in a building converted into a jail on the
> premises of the National Parliament. According to the Awami League, the
> arrest was politically motivated.
>
> On January 13, 2008, she was indicted by a special court along with two of
> her relatives, her sister Sheikh Rehana and her cousin Sheikh Selim, on
> extortion charges.On February 6, however, the High Court stopped the trial,
> ruling that she could not be prosecuted under emergency laws for alleged
> crimes committed prior to the imposition of the state of emergency.
>
> Intelligence sources said that Chief of army staff was awarded a large
> amount of money for tackling the situation.http://www.williamgomes.org/?p=769http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2012/04/bangladesh-chief-of-army-staf...
>
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