The investigation team of Anti-Corruption Commission Monday submitted its report on Destiny Group money embezzlement cases seeking permission to frame charges against 51 officials including its president Lt Gen (Retd) Harun-or-Rashid and managing director Rafiqul Amin.
Mojahar Ali Sarder, the head of the investigation team, submitted the report to ACC Director M Moniruzzaman at commission’s headquarters at about 4:15pm on Monday.
The 300-page report revealed that the accused officials were involved in embezzling and laundering of Tk 4,119.24 crore in name of Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) business.The investigation team found involvement of 29 more Destiny Group officials in addition to 22 officials, who were implicated in the two cases filed in this connection in July last year, a member of the investigation team confirmed.
The previous accused in the two cases are: managing director of Destiny Group—Rafiqul Amin, president of the group Lt Gen (Retd) M Harun-or-Rashid, director Mohammad Hossain, Saidur Rahman, Gofranul Haque, Mesbahuddin Swapan, Syed Sajjad Hossain, Irfan Ahmed Sani, Farah Diba, Jamshed Ara Chowdhury, Engr Sheikh Toiebur Rahman, Nepal Chandra Biswas, Jakir Hossain, Azad Rahman, Akbar Hossain Sumon, fromer MP Shirin Akhter, Md Rafiqul Islam Sarker, Mujibur Rahman, Sumon Ali Khan, Saidul Islam Khan, Saidul Islam Khan and Abul Kalam Azad.
The newly inducted accused include—former chairman of Aviation Group Dr M Haidaruzzaman, former head of finance Kazi Fazlul Karim, adviser, Joynal Abedin, assistant general manager Mollah Al Amin, fromer manager of Islam Trading International Sikder Kabirul Islam, Firoj Alam, Omar Faruk Md Ziaul Haque Mollah, Shafiul Islam, controller Sunil Baron, Karmaker, Golam Hossain, S Sahiduzzaman Chayon, Abdur Rahman Tapon, Farid Akhter, Shafiqul Haque, Jesmin Akhter, Maj (Retd) Sakibuzzaman Khan, Delwar Hossain, Shah Alam, AKM Shafiullah, Khandaker Benjir Ahmed, Atikur Rahman and Golam Kibria Milton.
The report recommended taking departmental punishment against 11 officials of Department of Cooperatives for their negligence in increasing the capital of Destiny Multipurpose from 50 crore to 1,400 crore and opening its 20 branches.
The ACC filed two cases on July 31 last year against 22 senior executives of Destiny group including its president M Harun-ur-Rashid, also former army chief, and managing director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin for allegedly laundering about Tk 3,285 crore.
During the 16-month investigation, the officials discovered 722 accounts of destiny group with 35 banks through which the officials transferred money to their own accounts. A six-member probe team led by ACC’s deputy director Mozahar Ali Sardar conducted the investigation.
The destiny group’s officials including its managing director Rafiqul Amin and chairman Mohammad Hossain earlier gave confessional statements in the court.
President of destiny group Lt Gen (Retd) M Harun-Ar-Rashid is now on bail and managing director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin remains in prison in the cases. – Staff Reporter
