Dhaka Bureau: The Dhaka Metropolitan Special Judge’s Court has banned the departure of former Musak Commissioner Wahida Rahman Chowdhury on charges of waiving and embezzling Tk 152 crore in interest owed to four mobile phone operators.
Assistant Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC). A notice of ban signed by Shah Alam Sheikh was sent to the Special Superintendent of Police (Immigration) of the Special Branch of Police on Thursday (June 13).
According to the notice sent by the ACC, Wahida Rahman Chowdhury, the former commissioner of the large tax payer unit, waived the interest of Tk 152 crore to the state and caused financial loss to the government through abuse of power and criminal breach of trust. commit a crime. A case was filed against him on June 11. According to reliable sources, the accused, Wahida Rahman Chowdhury, is trying to leave the country. In the interests of a fair investigation, the foreign travel of the accused must be stopped.
According to the ACC sources, among the four mobile operator companies, Grameenphone Limited has 58 crore, 64 lakh, 88 thousand, 697 taka in 6 documents, Banglalink Digital Communication Limited has 57 crore, 88 lakh, 53 thousand, 51 taka in 7 documents, Robi Aziata has 14 crore, 94 lakh, 16 thousand, 688 taka, and Airtel has Bangladesh Limited waived unpaid interest amounting to 20 crore 53 lakh 30 thousand 952 taka, including 152 crore 89 thousand 390 taka.
According to the investigation report of the ACC and the statement of the case, regarding the collection of VAT applicable on the rent of premises and premises, as VAT is legally applicable on the premises and premises, the establishment authorities agreed to the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) meeting regarding the payment of the claimed VAT, and on time, 189 crores, 74 lakhs, 15 thousand, and 430 lakhs were paid. Due to non-payment of the said revenue within the prescribed tax period, the amount of interest payable at the rate applicable under the Musak Act is Tk 152 crore (89 lakh 390). According to Section 37(3) of the Value Added Tax Act, 1991, the then Commissioner Wahida Rahman Chowdhury was ordered to calculate the interest very quickly when the documents were presented for interest. Commissioner Wahida Rahman Chowdhury, by showing some arguments, the single executive through abuse of power and criminal breach of trust. The order changed the decision to levy interest for dishonest purposes. 152 crore of interest was legally recoverable. But he issued a single executive decision not to collect the said interest, as a result of which the collection of 152 crores, 89 thousand, and 390 taka by the government has been obstructed by the ACC.
This former Commissioner of Musak has extrajudiciously committed a single executive decision of 16 (sixteen) documents to waive Tk 152 crore 89 thousand 390 in unpaid interest and caused financial damage to the government through abuse of power and criminal breach of trust under Section 218/409 of the Embezzlement Penal Code and Section 5 of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947. (2) A case is filed under Sec.
