Former Mayor Jahangir and two others face embezzlement case worth Rs 7.5 billion

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is filing a case against former Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) mayor Jahangir Alam and two others on charges of embezzlement and laundering of 7,500 crore taka. Today, Sunday (August 3), ACC Deputy Director Md. Akhtarul Islam gave this information. He said that former GCC mayor Jahangir Alam, through collusion, created fake tenders and bills in the City Corporation and gave work to a contracting company owned by him. Through this, he embezzled 7,500 crore taka from the government development fund and the City Corporation’s revenue fund and laundered it abroad. Apart from Jahangir Alam, GCC’s Chief Accounting Officer Golam Kibria has also been named as an accused in the case. In addition, the ACC has filed two separate cases against former Minister of the Ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Bir Bahadur U Shai Singh and his wife on charges of illegal assets worth about Tk 11.5 crore and suspicious transactions worth Tk 74 crore.