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Seven people, including former South City Corporation Mayor Saeed Khokon, have been charged with embezzlement of more than Tk 34 crore in the name of the allocation and legalization of stores in the capital’s Fulbaria City Super Market 2. The court ordered the Police Investigation Office (PBI) to investigate the case. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam issued the order on Wednesday. Mizanur Rahman, the presenter of that court, confirmed the matter.
Earlier, after the case was presented on Tuesday, the same judge held a hearing on Wednesday. That market’s homeowners association and Zack’s grocery store owners association
President Delwar Hossain shelved the case. The other defendants are the former chief revenue officer for Dhaka South City Corporation. Yusuf Ali Sardar, former Majed engineering assistant, Kamrul Hasan, Helena Akter, Atiqur Rahman Swapan and Walid.
The case alleges that the defendant Saeed Khokon, Md. Yusuf Ali Sardar, Majed in collusion with each other announced the allocation of stores by constructing facilities in the unplanned part of the main Block-A, B, C building of Fulbaria City Super Market 2. After that, the small merchants contacted the Dhaka South City Corporation and Mayor Saeed, Kamrul Hasan, Helena Akter, Atiqur Rahman Swapan and Walid said that the store allocation would be matched only after depositing the money . Not only that, those who have stores in the main market are also under pressure to take over these stores. Failure to do so threatens to cancel the allocation to store owners in the main market. Many were forced to take on workshop assignments there.
The case further said that on August 20, 2016, the defendants Yusuf Ali Sardar, Atiqur Rahman Swapan and Walid were summoned to Banani in the capital and asked to remain silent about the allocation of illegal stores. Otherwise, it threatens to be very bad. Therefore, Delwar Hossain, president of the homeowners association of the demanding market, remained silent with the safety of his family in mind. The defendants have taken millions of rupees from small merchants for the allocation of illegal shops without any receipt or without any documents. Therefore, the plaintiff later paid Tk 34.69 million rupees at different times through the Fulbaria branch account of his organization’s Uttara Bank to preserve the documents. Later, through that plaintiff’s account, according to Mayor Saeed Khokon, Shahnewaz paid Tk 75 lakh as the company’s standard bank. The defendants have joined the Paltan branch of Exim Bank for Tk 12.55 crore, the corporate branch of Southeast Bank for Tk 4.39 crore, the Jamuna Bank branch in Dilkusha for Tk 1.0 crore, the Fulbaria branch of Uttara Bank for Tk 1.8 crore and Tk 34.69 crore. .
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