Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) has written to the police headquarters in Dhaka recommending suspension of Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC-Crime) Mohammad Kamrul Hasan after an internal police probe confirmed his involvement in graft.
The recommendation of the suspension followed a court order confiscating his and his wife’s wealth worth Tk 11 core earlier.
Abdul Mannan Mia, additional police commissioner (crime and operations) of the CMP, confirmed the matter on Thursday night, saying that the internal probe body quizzed ADC Kamrul and others about the alleged graft, reports UNB.
sent the results of the probe body including recommendation of the suspension of the ADC Kamrul to the police headquarters," he said.
Accused Kamrul is now attached with the Public Order Management Division of the CMP and earlier he was posted at the prison (prosecution) of the Chattogram Metropolitan Court.
Along with Kamrul, the CMP recommended taking punitive actions against the then prison’s inspector Atiqur Rahman, he said.
According to the probe report Kamrul during his tenure in charge of the hajatkhana of metro court, about Tk 13.31 lakh was withdrawn from the government treasury from 2021 to June 2023 as food bills for the detainees in the custody of the metro court through corruption.
On July 9, a Chattogram court ordered the seizure of assets worth over Tk 11 crore of ADC Kamrul and his wife Saima Begum.
The court ordered the confiscation of assets worth Tk 11,34,35,919 crore which was acquired allegedly beyond the couple’s known sources of income.
According to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) sources, Kamrul joined the Bangladesh Police Department in 1989 as a sub-inspector and was finally promoted to the current position.
During the investigation, it was found that Kamrul had acquired assets worth Tk 13,96,31,911 crore, including movable assets worth Tk 12,72,92,695 crore and immovable assets worth Tk 1,23,39,216 crore.
In contrast, Kamrul’s legitimate sources of income amounted to Tk 4,80,32,087 crore, revealing a disparity of Tk 9,86,28,065 crore. He was found to have have accumulated assets worth Tk 97,322,044 beyond his known income sources.
Similarly, Saima Begum has assets worth Tk 2.53 crore, including immovable assets worth Tk 1.25 lakh and movable assets worth Tk 1.99 crore. Against the acquisition of this wealth, her legitimate and acceptable source of income was found to be Tk 40,14,433 lakh. The investigation found assets worth Tk 1,62,85,188 crore beyond her known sources of income.
The ACC, after its preliminary investigation, found sufficient evidence of assets disproportionate to the known sources of income and submitted an application to the court to seize these assets under Section 26(1) of the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2004, said the ACC lawyer.
Bd pratidin English/Lutful Hoque
