The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has asked 17 officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) to submit their statements of assets and liabilities after finding evidence of illegal wealth against them.
The disclosure came on Tuesday at a press conference at the ACC headquarters in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, where ACC Director General Akhter Hossain briefed reporters.
According to ACC sources, the officials include: Member Md. Lutfur Azim; former Additional Director General (CIC) Md. Alamgir Hossain; Joint Commissioner Md. Tariq Hasan; Additional Commissioner Sadhan Kumar Kundu; Commissioner of Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate Kazi Md. Zia Uddin; Commissioner of Railway Customs Md. Kamruzzaman; Additional Commissioner of VAT Commissionerate, Large Taxpayers Unit, Abdur Rashid Mia; Deputy Tax Commissioner of Tax Zone-16 Mohammad Shihabul Islam; Additional Tax Commissioner of Tax Zone-8 Mirza Ashiq Rana; Joint Tax Commissioner of BCS Tax Academy Mohammad Morshed Uddin Khan; Deputy Tax Commissioner of Tax Zone-16 Monalisa Shahrin Susmita; Member (Income Tax Policy) A.K.M. Badiul Alam; Additional Commissioner of VAT Intelligence and Investigation Directorate Hasan Tarek Rikabdar; Additional Commissioner Mohammad Mamun Mia; Additional Commissioner of the Intelligence Unit Sahela Siddique; Commissioner of Tax Appellate Tribunal Lokman Ahmed; and Commissioner of Tax Zone-3 M.M. Fazlul Haque.
DG Akhter Hossain said the inquiry revealed that these officials had accumulated wealth inconsistent with their known sources of income, either in their own names or through others on their behalf.
“For this reason, the Commission has decided to order them to submit full statements of assets and liabilities,” he stated.
