Ex-BTCL official confesses graft
AKM Asaduzzaman, former divisional engineer of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL), yesterday confessed before a magistrate that he along with several other officials misappropriated government revenue totaling Tk 204.91 crore.
Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Moniruzzaman recorded the confessional statement of Asaduzzaman, now deputy general manger of state-run mobile operator Teletalk, and later sent him to jail.
On November 5, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed five cases against 14 people, including Asaduzzaman and five other BTCL officials, in connection with embezzling Tk 204.91 crore by giving connections to some alleged international call carriers.
Yesterday, SM Sahidur Rahman, deputy director of the ACC and also the investigation officer of the case, produced Asaduzzaman before the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Bikash Kumar Saha.
The CMM assigned Moniruzzaman to record the confession. Asaduzzaman was arrested on December 13 and the next day a Dhaka court placed him on a 16-day remand in two cases.
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