ACC official suspended on graft charge

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today suspended its assistant director on charges of acquiring wealth illegally and concealing information sources of income.

Amirul Islam, assistant director of ACC’s Rajshahi office, concealed information of Tk 12.86 lakh in his income tax file and failed to disclose the source of income that he spent to buy 1.3-acre lands in Gazipur and Tangail, said an order, signed by ACC commissioner Dr Nasiruddin Ahmed.

The ACC said, considering his activities harmful for the public interest, it becomes reasonable and indispensable to suspend assistant director Amirul Islam from the service.

“Amirul will experience similar consequence that a corrupt person faces. There won’t be any exception,” said Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, ACC’s director general.

Last October, ACC suspended an assistant director for “misusing power” by refraining from filing cases over grabbing of public land in Mymensingh.

According to the office order, Amirul showed his bank’s balance ‘nil’ in the wealth statement of 2016-17. But in the inquiry, it is found on June 30, 2016, he had Tk 12,86,844 in his own account at Sonali Bank’s Segunbagicha branch.