2 NBR officials, 19 others sued for Tk 3cr tax evasion
Court Correspondent
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed four separate graft cases against two additional commissioners of National Board of Revenue (NBR) and 19 others for evasion of about Tk 3.36 crore revenue.Assistant Director Muhammad Mahbubul Alam filed the cases with Motijheel police station on December 28 and 29, an ACC press release said yesterday. The two accused additional commissioners are Azam-e-Sadat and Almachh Uzzaman. Indicted in the cases are, among others, Kaisarul Haq Robin, proprietor of M/s Diamond International, Hrishikesh Biswas, proprietor of M/s Biswas Syndicate, Monzur Ahmed, owner of M/s Monzur Enterprise, Mofizul Islam, proprietor of M/s Suravi Enterprise, Amzad Hossain, proprietor of M/s Saf Global Trade, Dermate Zinigs, general manager of M/s Cotecona Inspection, Peter Sewell, manager (operation) of M/s Cotecona Inspection, AAM Ferdous Sarkar, manager and senior principal officer of Johnson Road branch of Rupali Bank Limited, Mohammad Delwar Hossain, officer of the same branch, M Amir Siddiqui, chairman of Elan Corporation and A Kayyum Khan, managing director of Bureau Veritus (BD) Limited. According to the first case, Robin of Diamond International, in collusion with the two NBR officials, evaded about Tk 4,364,187 revenue by releasing perfumes, cigarette lighters and cosmetic items in the name of glass tumblers through Kamalapur inland container depot (ICD). In the second case, it was alleged that Robin and two managers of Cotecna Inspection, in connivance with the NBR commissioners, dodged about Tk 5,578,031 revenue by importing stereos, watches and watch parts instead of touch lamps. According to the two other cases, Suravi Enterprise and Biswas Syndicate evaded about Tk 23,071,868 and Tk 621,689 respectively using the same means.
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