The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Wednesday filed a case against owner of Rana Plaza for allegedly amassing wealth in illicit way. ACC deputy director Mahbubur Rahman filed the case with Ramna Police Station in the city, the commission’s spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told the FE. Rana hogged spotlight after the deadly factory building collapse on April 24, 2013 that killed 1,129 people and leaving around 2,515 injured. The complex housed a number of garment units. The commission sent a notice to a senior jail superintendent of Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur on April 2, 2015, to convey the message to Sohel Rana that the ACC asked him to submit his wealth statement to it within ACC-stipulated time. Although Rana is in prison now, his wife submitted an application to the ACC seeking time extension to submit the wealth report, but the commission rejected the plea and gave approval on May 18 for registering a non-submission case against Rana. The ACC decided to conduct a probe against Rana to know how he accumulated such an amount of wealth and formed a two-member inquiry team in this connection. According to the ACC inquiry report, Rana built two commercial buildings — Rana Plaza and Rana Tower — in Savar with money earned illegally. He also has a five-storey residential building in Savar. Apart from the buildings, Rana, who was arrested on April 29, 2013 after the building collapse, has huge movable and immovable wealth, ACC officials said. On April 12, 2015, the commission also filed separate cases against his parents — Morzina Begum and Abdul Khaleque — on charge of accumulating wealth worth around Tk 170 million illegally. The graft-fighting body has also decided to file a case against five Bangladesh Railway (BR) men including former General Manager Ferdous Alam for leasing 1,300 square feet of BR land illegally in Akhaura station of Brahmanbaria. The commission in its regular meeting approved a proposal for filing a case against the BR officials, according to an ACC official. The case will be filed soon against former BR GM Ferdous Alam, its deputy director (traffic and operation) Kabirul Alam, area operating manager M Shafiqur Rahman, assistant commercial officer of Kamalapur Railway Station Pranabesh Sarkar and upper division assistant Mosharraf Hossain. According to the ACC probe, all the accused in collusion with each other leased out 1,300 square feet of a godown located near Akhaura Rail Station in Brahmanbaria. They leased out the godown to one Jasmin Akter on May 25, 2010, preparing fake documents.
Source: https://thefinancialexpress-bd.com/2015/05/21/93495
