Chattogram, July 12 (UNB)-Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has
written to the police headquarters in Dhaka recommending suspension of
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Crime) Mohammad Kamrul Hasan after an
internal police probe confirmed his involvement in graft.
The recommendation of the
suspension followed a court order confiscating his and his wife's wealth worth
Tk 11 core earlier.
Abdul Mannan Mia,
additional police commissioner (crime and operations) of the CMP, confirmed the
matter on Thursday night, saying that the internal probe body quizzed ADC
Kamrul and others about the alleged graft.
Sent the results of the
probe body including recommendation of the suspension of the ADC Kamrul to the
police headquarters," he said.
Accused Kamrul is now
attached with the Public Order Management Division of the CMP and earlier he
was posted at the prison (prosecution) of the Chattogram Metropolitan Court.
Along with Kamrul, the CMP
recommended taking punitive actions against the then prison's inspector Atiqur
Rahman, he said.
According to the probe
report Kamrul during his tenure in charge of the hajatkhana of metro court,
about Tk 13.31 lakh was withdrawn from the government treasury from 2021 to
June 2023 as food bills for the detainees in the custody of the metro court
through corruption.
On July 9, a Chattogram
court ordered the seizure of assets worth over Tk 11 crore of ADC Kamrul and
his wife Saima Begum.
The court ordered the
confiscation of assets worth Tk 11,34,35,919 crore which was acquired allegedly
beyond the couple's known sources of income.
According to
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sources, Kamrul joined the Bangladesh Police
Department in 1989 as a sub-inspector and was finally promoted to the current
position.
During the investigation,
it was found that Kamrul had acquired assets worth Tk 13,96,31,911 crore,
including movable assets worth Tk 12,72,92,695 crore and immovable assets worth
Tk 1,23,39,216 crore.
In contrast, Kamrul's
legitimate sources of income amounted to Tk 4,80,32,087 crore, revealing a
disparity of Tk 9,86,28,065 crore. He was found to have have accumulated assets
worth Tk 97,322,044 beyond his known income sources.
Similarly, Saima Begum has
assets worth Tk 2.53 crore, including immovable assets worth Tk 1.25 lakh and
movable assets worth Tk 1.99 crore. Against the acquisition of this wealth, her
legitimate and acceptable source of income was found to be Tk 40,14,433 lakh.
The investigation found assets worth Tk 1,62,85,188 crore beyond her known
sources of income.
The ACC, after its
preliminary investigation, found sufficient evidence of assets disproportionate
to the known sources of income and submitted an application to the court to
seize these assets under Section 26(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act,
2004, said the ACC lawyer.
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