Detective Branch officials of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police are taking assistance from experts and suspects to identify more than 5,000 forged certificates sold over the years from Bangladesh Technical Education Board with the help of its system analyst ATM Shamsuzzaman and his associates.
Talking to reporters at his office on Saturday, the DB chief additional commissioner Harun Or Rashid said that they were taking technical assistance from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology to identify the certificates and mark-sheets prepared by the system analyst.
The DB chief said that they were currently interrogating the system analyst after a metropolitan magistrate court granted six-day remand in police custody in connection with a case filed with the Khilgaon police station.聽聽
He said that the accused used to upload certificates and mark-sheets to the official website so that those could be verified online from abroad.
He said that they came to know that some journalists and officials at the Anti-Corruption Commission also used to take advantage from the system analyst and they would be interrogated in the course of investigation.
Earlier, Shehela Parveen, wife of Bangladesh Technical Education Board chairman Md Ali Akbar Khan, and 10 others were arrested in Dhaka and other places in connection with the forgery.
They were shown arrested in a case filed with the Mirpur police station on April 1 under the Cyber Security Act earlier following arrest of other officials in April.
The DB chief said that a metropolitan magistrate court had already recorded the statement of the system analyst in the case under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
He also said that the Technical Education Board authorities formed a three-member committee to investigate the forgery by the system analyst but they were delaying in submitting report despite having necessary CCTV footage and digital footprints.
