Two ACC officials suspended for taking bribe

Staff Reporter :
Two officials of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) have been temporally suspended for allegedly taking bribe from a police official and a businessman respectively.
Temporally suspended officials are ACC’s assistant director Mostafizur Rahman and deputy-assistant director Sudip Kumar Chowdhury.
The ACC issued an order signed by ACC Chairman Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah in this regard on Thursday.

Before that Mohammad Mustafizur Rahman, assistant director of Jashore district office, ACC and Shudip Kumar Chowdhury, deputy assistant director of Kurigram district office, have been asked to leave their respective offices on July 12 and attached them to ACC head office.

Of them, Mustafizur Rahman was filmed while taking Taka 76 thousand as bribes from a businessman named Shamsul Haque at his office. He demanded Taka 20 lakhs from the businessman. The video clip went viral on social media, creating a sensation among the people.

On the other hand, another accused ACC official Shudip Kumar Chowdhury allegedly demanded bribe amounting to Taka seven lakh from Alamgir Hossain, an assistant inspector of Bogura district police. The cop paid him (Shudip Chowdhury) Taka five lakh and eighty thousand to settle down the issue. The ACC official became furious as he did not get Taka seven lakhs from the cop and filed a corruption case against him.

Many officials of ACC are facing departmental and external investigations over their alleged links to various corruption and irregularities. The officials have allegedly accumulated illegal wealth and misappropriated huge amount of money by giving advantages to corruption suspects during ACC investigations.