Fraud case filed against Proshika Chair Wadud

21 April 2010, 18:00 PM

Court Correspondent

A fraud case was filed against Proshika Chairman MA Wadud, its Executive Chief Officer Mahbub-ul-Karim, and 12 others with a Dhaka court yesterday. Momtaz Begum, a member of Proshika Housing Project, filed the case with the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court accusing them of misappropriating Tk 3.17 lakh between December 12, 2005 and January 18, 2010. The other accused are Proshika Vice-Chairman Abdul Matin, Treasurer Masrul Ul Islam, directors Sirajul Islam, Abdur Rob, Sirajul Huq, Altaf Hossain Talukder, and Mahbub Alam, deputy directors Kamrul Hassan Kamal and Azizul Haque Kabir, central coordinator Khorshed Alam, divisional coordinator Taslima Begum and area coordinator Humayun Kabir. After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Emdadul Haque recorded statement of the complainant and did not pass any order on the issue. In her complaint, Momtaz mentioned that she along with seven others deposited a total of Tk 3.17 lakh to the Proshika Housing Project on different dates sometime between December 12, 2005 and January 18, 2010. But she had earlier come to know that Proshika Chairman Qazi Faruque was sacked from his post on May 24 last year and the accused in collusion with others had misappropriated crores of taka from different projects like the complainant's project. Later on July 26 last year, the complainant went to Proshika Pallabi Unnayan Kendra to know about her project where divisional coordinator Humayun Kabir asked her to communicate with its head office. He also asked her that they had earlier transferred the savings of housing project to the head office. The complainant also said that she had gone to the Proshika head office where the accused told her not to proceed with it again.