Dhaka, July 02: Bangladesh's parliament may ask its
former speaker and two top BNP leaders, found guilty of
'embezzlement' of USD 285,000 by a parliamentary probe body,
to return the amount.
Former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, his deputy in the last
House Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and ex-parliamentary chief whip
Khandker Delwar Hossain drew Taka 17.1 million as medical
allowances and additional fuel allowances 'ignoring the law',
the all-party committee said.
In a set of recommendations in the report, the probe
panel will ask the House to recover the money from Sircar,
Akhtar and Hossain and file criminal cases in this connection
against them if they fail to return the money, a member of the
committee was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.
The three boycotted the summons issued by the committee
that will submit its report to the House next Tuesday, the
paper reported.
"We decided to place the probe report in parliament on
July 7. We want to read out the findings of our investigation
in the House so that people can know what happened in the
parliament secretariat in the past," Shajahan Khan, a member
of the probe body, told The Daily Star.
Committee sources said the parliamentary body, probing
alleged corruption in Parliament Secretariat in the last seven
years, also decided to consult Speaker Abdul Hamid and Leader
of the House Sheikh Hasina about how the probe finds would be
disclosed in the House.
Bureau Report
First Published: Thursday, July 02, 2009, 20:58