The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against three people, including deputy tax commissioner Khandaker Md Hasanul Islam, on charges of forgery of tax documents.
The commission鈥檚 deputy director, Mashiur Rahman, filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, said ACC deputy director Aktarul Islam.
The accused are Hasanul Islam, deputy tax commissioner of tax zone-4 in Dhaka, Jesmin Prodhan, sister-in-law of former聽 independent lawmaker Kazi Shahidul Islam Papul, and Herish Lal Borman, an upper grade employee of tax zone-8 in Dhaka.
According to the case statement, Jasmin was involved in the fraud in filing her tax returns in 2021, as she made her four-year returns in a single year. She also committed fraud in making audit reports and bank statements.
There is no match of the income tax return information to Jasmin鈥檚 stock register and monthly tax assessment register information, as she tampered with the original tax return documents, according to the case.
Jasmin changed the total income, total assets, net assets, and family expenses with the help of the two others accused by tampering with the tax return register.
The case statement reads that Jasmin submitted her returns from the tax year 2016-17 to the tax year 2020-2021 on the same day in collusion with the employees of the tax office.
Jasmin changed and tampered with the amount of money in the register books and documents of the tax office regarding her income tax returns to avoid the eyes of the authorities, said the case statement.
The generated and printed year for each of the bank statements submitted by Jasmin along with the income tax returns for four tax years was 2020.
The audit reports were supposed to be separate, but the ACC found evidence that the four-year audit reports were prepared in 2020.
Referring to the review of Jasmin鈥檚 stock register and monthly tax assessment register, the ACC said that the taxpayer鈥檚 gross income was Tk 3,50,000 in the tax year 2016鈥�17, Tk 3,50,000 in 2017鈥�18, Tk 4,50,000 in 2018鈥�19, and Tk 4,50,000 in the tax year 2019鈥�20.
But her total income was found to be Tk 13,50,000 in the income tax return for the tax year 2016鈥�17, Tk 21,50,000 for 2017鈥�18, Tk 36,45,000 for 2018鈥�19, and Tk 43,75,000 for 2019鈥�20, said the case statement.
