City Reporter: Some employees of revenue sector of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) have collected crores of taka for 4 years by forging the seal signature of Pubali Bank without depositing 2000 rupees and 20 rupees of welfare fund to the revenue sector. These employees are Shahdat Hossain working illegally in service delivery branch and Peon Abdul Hai of authorized branch.
According to sources, Shahdat Hossain’s original title is Darwan. Even though he was posted in the Purchase Branch as the Acting LDA by tricking the then Acting Secretary Saiful Islam, he was working in the Despas Branch instead of sitting in his main office. With the money of his misdeeds, he built a duplex house and bought a car and recently bought a land with 16 lakh rupees. Peon Abdul Hai siphoned off government revenue and sent his son to Australia for studies by showing a cash bank balance of Rs 50/60 lakhs. Apart from this, he bought huge wealth in country houses with cash bank balance.
According to sources, out of about 47 BC KEC documents submitted for design approval at Authorized Branch-1 on August 28, 46 documents of money slips deposited in the bank are fake. Those who paid for this design approval were shocked to see this fake and bogus seal. When the depositors misbehaved with the two employees, they were forced to refund several people that day and tried hard to cover up the structure.
When Shahdat Hossain was asked about this, he told The Crime that he disconnected the telephone connection because I did not forge this fake bank seal.
When Peon Abdul Hai was asked, he told The Crime, “Someone or someone forged my handwriting to implicate me and collect government revenue.” He hangs up when you ask why you have refunded customers.
According to sources related to CDA, in the same way, the bank slips of hundreds of documents submitted for land use permit are fake, so the concerned officials have stopped the approval of land use permit for the time being. Mahtab working in despas branch of this branch, DCTP Abu Isha Anchari’s personal PA Sohal and section officer Ashrafi are directly involved in this fraud. Mahtab is working under DAB project.
CDA’s CBA officials told The Crime that they have requested the authorities concerned to identify the government revenue evaders through proper investigation and provide exemplary punishment.
They also said that this kind of heinous crime has never happened since the time of CDA. We see it today because of poor administration.
Sources reveal that several other outsiders are involved in such misdeeds and frauds by syndicating with them. Which if investigated by an impartial investigation committee, the cat in the bag will come out.
