The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against Local Government Engineering Department additional chief engineer Mujibur Rahman Shikder on charges of amassing wealth worth Tk 4.20 crore beyond known sources of income.
ACC deputy director Jesmin Aktar filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 against Mujibur Rahman Shikder, who is now on post retirement leave, said ACC officials.
According to the case statement, Mujibur amassed wealth worth Tk 4.20 crore through corruption and irregularities while he concealed information about his wealth worth Tk 1.24 crore.
Following the ACC notice, Mujibur submitted his wealth statement to the commission in October 2021, showing his movable and immovable wealth worth Tk 10.78 crore.
Scrutinising his wealth statement, the ACC found his total wealth worth Tk 12.86 crore, but the commission found legal sources of聽 income against his wealth worth only Tk 8.55 crore.
Mujibur amassed moveable and immovable assets worth Tk 4.20 crore beyond his known sources of income since January 1980 to October 24, 2021, said the case statement.
The ACC, during the inquiry, also found that Mujibur accepted 203.5 decimals of land from tea sellers, grocers, carpenters, farmers, and expatriate workers as donations, though none of the donors were his blood relations.聽
The accused owned the land from the donors in this way, using his money to legitimise his illegal income, the case statement read.
The value of the lands showed only Tk 1,24,04,000 for 203.5 decimal of land in deeds, where he also evaded tax and concealed the real price of the land under the cover of Heba deeds.
Mujibur鈥檚 wealth statement showed his income of Tk 3.34 crore from his fish farming on 12.05 acres of land in Khulna, but the accused could not present evidence related to the investment against the income, the ACC said.
