The National Board of Revenue on Sunday transferred its first secretary (Taxes) Quazi Abu Mahmud Faisal to Bogura amid allegations of amassing illegal wealth raised against him.
The NBR鈥檚 move came only days after he had been accused of accumulating illegal wealth worth Tk1,000 crore with the Anti-Corruption Commission inquiring into those allegations.
Hours after the NBR circular, former foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, in a聽 post on his verified Facebook page, said that the transfer of the accused from one office to another cannot be an effective punishment.
鈥楻ather, a proper account of the assets of the person accused of corruption must be done, all his illegal assets should be confiscated and sold at auction, and he should be fired at once,鈥� he said.
Momen also said that it should be remembered that the biggest asset of the government employees was their job.
The NBR issued a circular in this regard signed by its first secretary of the Tax Administration Department Md Shahiduzzaman, on Sunday.
The circular said that the decision would be effective immediately.
The circular said that Faisal was transferred to Inspector Range-1 of the Bogura Tax Region as an additional joint tax commissioner [current charge].
Through the same order, Md Moniruzzaman, additional tax commissioner of Inspector Range-1 of the Bogura Tax Region, was appointed as the first secretary for Taxes Legal and Enforcement, where Faisal was posted.
The Anti-Corruption Commission is conducting an inquiry into the charges brought against Faisal and his family of embezzling and amassing wealth worth Tk 1,000 crore.
Faisal faces allegations that he has amassed wealth through corruption, including accepting bribes for transfer of income tax officials and blackmailing income tax providers.
The ACC has already traced movable and immovable assets worth Tk 16.41 crore owned by Faisal and his family.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge鈥檚 Court on Thursday ordered the seizure of the movable and immovable assets of Faisal and his family following a petition submitted by the ACC.
Of the wealth, the ACC found immovable assets worth Tk 6.89 crore, including plots of land and flats in the names of Faisal, his wife Afsana Jasmin, his father-in-law Ali Ahmed, and his mother-in-law Momtaz Begum.