What we were against p122 Aug 2024 17:51
Change a coming ! Very long translation below
https://www.jugantor.com/todays-paper/first-page/841085/বিপুর-মাফিয়া-সিন্ডিকেট
Festival of looting in the power sector
In the 15 years of the Awami League government, there has been widespread irregularities and corruption in the electricity sector. Its level has reached such a level that these events have been commented as a festival of looting. Behind these misdeeds was a mafia syndicate. It (syndicate) has been led by the former Minister of State for Power Nasrul Hamid Bipu himself for an era. And those who sat in the prime minister's office and used to wave the crowbar to prevent all misdeeds, are former prime minister's advisor Taufiq-e-Ilahi Chowdhury, former chief secretary Abul Kalam Azad and Ahmed Kaykaus. Yugantar's own research revealed sensational information.
It is known that the syndicate had to pay money in at least 20 steps from undertaking a power project to approval. These included planning, site visit, approving machine documents, negotiation, project site selection, soil filling, land purchase, fixing power purchase price, starting power generation or commissioning, sending report to the ministry, purchase approval, bill approval, bill waiver. -In other words, this syndicate had to pay money in every sector.
Besides, if the PDB chairman or minister signed, bribes had to be paid to seal the signature. Besides, from approving various purchases and development projects of various companies in the power sector, to keeping, promoting and posting preferred officials in various purchase committees, this cycle used to grab billions of taka. This syndicate used to grab huge amount of money to go to the management stage of various companies. Apart from this, the syndicate members used to blackmail the project PD or the top officials of the company by reporting in various media with their own people.
According to the investigation, the active members of that syndicate were the current chairman of PDB, engineer Mahbubur Rahman, two former chairmen and several chief engineers, former additional secretary Anwar Hossain, the younger brother of the state minister Intekhabul Hamid Apu and a nephew of the former bridge minister. APS Mujahidul Islam Mamun, the influential Shaheen chairman of Keraniganj and public relations officer Mir Aslam were in charge of the accounting of illegal income of the syndicate.
They were known as the cashiers of all. Apart from this, the main craftsman of various works was the leader of various levels of Bangabandhu Engineering Council of PDB. At the time under discussion, more than 100 crores of rupees entered the pockets of more than 100 companies through the syndicate. It is also known that there is a separate office in the PDB itself for the leaders of the PDB's Bangabandhu Engineering Council who used to make various corruption plans
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