ACC sues ex-LAO Setaful, 11 others

Sr. Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj  :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has again filed a case against 12 people, including former Land Acquisition Officer (LAO) Setaful Islam of Kishoreganj Collectorate, a 24 batch officer of BCS, on charges of corruption, irregularities and money embezzlement in land acquis on Tuesday afternoon.
Assistant Director (AD) of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Kishoreganj district office, Mahathir Muhammad Sami filed the case. In the case, ACC accused discharge LAO Setaful Islam of misappropriation of about Tk. 9 crore government funds and embezzlement of Tk. 3.79 crore. As per the case, a total of Tk 18 crore public money has been embezzled through cheating, forgery and misuse of power.
Setaful Islam, Senior Auditor Md.Syeduzzaman and peon Dulal Miah withdrew the money from Sonali Bank, Kishoreganj Principal branch and disappeared. Sataful arrested from on January, 17 by ACC members.
Among others, the accused are Md. Syeduzzaman, former auditor of Kishoreganj’s District Accounts Office, Abdullah Al Mamun, KA Al Mamun, Kamruzzaman, Jahangir Alam, Anichur Rahman, Mohammad Mahmud Hossain Shimul, Raihan Uddin, Jilon Khan, Abul Kalam and Abdul Hamid.
Apart from this, the ACC filed another case in 2018 against Setaful Islam, a former land acquisition officer of the Kishoreganj district administration, alleging embezzlement of Tk 5 crore for land acquisition.
A charge sheet has already been given in the tribunal in that case.
On March, 07, 2018, a special team ACC recovered some 92.20 lakhof embezzled money from the house of Senior Auditor of Kishoreganj Accounts Office Md. Syeduzzaman in Katiarchar at midnight. ACC team was led by Senior Magistrate Abu Taher Sayeed, Deputy Director (DD) Abdul Wadud. The seized money has been deposited on Kishoreganj Treasury.
According to the Case Diary (CD), the application of the aggrieved person in the acquisition of land was not received; the authentic document of ownership and the related Roedad was not recorded in the book.
Various Land Acquisition (LA) checks of Kishoreganj Collectorate (LA section) recorded different information in the wrapper part and payee part without distribution according to ownership. They conspired with each other to defraud by creating fake advices and sending them to Kishoreganj District Accounts Office to encash the respective Land Acquisition checks and to embezzle government money and bypassed Kishoreganj Collectorate building and issued various LA checks to different persons. Through the preparation and use of fake advice, the relevant ledger books of the LA case and the related registers of the Kishoreganj District Accounts Office were found to be inconsistencies in the amount of government money equivalent to Tk 8 crore 96 lakh 57 thousand 36 at various times.