The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against five people, including three officials of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, for allegedly embezzling Tk6.5 lakh from a government project using fake names of workers. Nurul Islam, the agency's assistant director, filed the case at the ACC's Chittagong-2 integrated district office on Wednesday night, ACC public relations department said on Thursday. According to the case, Dantmara Union Parishad misappropriated Tk656,000 by using the names of 41 workers at the rate of Tk200 per day for the first, and second phase of the first 60 days of the 2015-2016 fiscal year. In this case, the accused created fake workers and fake master roll in the project, opened fake accounts in the name of the workers and withdrew money in the name of the workers. A total of six projects were implemented under the 40-day program while the total amount allocated was Tk5,904,000 during the year.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 27, 2022 23:14 UTC