Mridha charged with amassing wealth illegally

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday pressed charges against former general manager of Bangladesh Railway (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha in a graft case.

ACC Deputy Assistant Director M Rezaul Hasan Tarafder submitted the charge-sheet before the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate’s Court in Dhaka in the afternoon, ACC public relations officer Pranab

Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.

On November 19, the ACC approved the charge-sheet against Yusuf Ali Mridha on charges of acquiring wealth illegally and concealing information about it in his wealth statement submitted to the commission.

On August 14 this year, Rezaul Hasan Tarafder filed the case against Mridha with Ramna Police Station in the city. The case was filed under the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2004.

In an ACC investigation, it was found that Mridha concealed wealth worth nearly Tk 17.5 lakh in his statement and also the accumulated illegal wealth to the tune of Tk 40 lakh.

Source: The Daily Star