The Anti-Corruption Commission has started an inquiry into corruption allegations against a former assistant private secretary to the youth and sports adviser and a former and a serving personal officers to the health adviser.
ACC director general (prevention) Md Akhter Hossain at a press briefing on Sunday said, 鈥楾he commission has made a decision to launch an inquiry against the three people based on an intelligence unit report over the graft allegations.鈥�
Amid the allegations of corruption, Md Moazzem Hossain resigned as an assistant private secretary to youth and sports adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain and Tuhin Farabi resigned as a personal officer to health adviser Nurjahan Begum on April 21.
There is also a graft allegation against Nurjahan Begum鈥檚 personal officer, Mahmudul Hasan.
According to a Bangla daily report, Moazzem was accused of lobbying, and similar allegations were raised against Tuhin and Mahmudul.
The report said that Moazzem allegedly embezzled a huge amount of money against recruitments and transfers, tender distribution and the rehabilitation of engineers who were complicit in the autocratic Awami League rule at various levels before the August 5, 2024, political changeover.
It was alleged that Moazzem, a leader of the anti-discrimination movement that ousted the AL regime, lobbied for transfer and promotion of almost all grades of officials, down from chief engineer and additional chief engineer to upazila engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department.
In addition, he used to lobby various ministries and departments, especially the home, water resources, and housing ministries, and the Public Works Department and the Roads and Highways Department for contractors to gain contracts.
Similar allegations were raised against Tuhin and Mahmudul, who were appointed to their posts as student representative.
Appointed on a temporary basis, they, too, allegedly embezzled hundreds of crores of taka through appointments and transfer of doctors, medical college principals, directors, deputy directors and civil surgeons, according to the report.
