The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate Pretrobangla’s eight officials in connection with mysterious disappearance of a huge stack of coal from Barapukurua Coal Mine on Tuesday.
On August 13, some 32 officials of Petrobangla were asked to be present for interrogation at ACC in phases. Earlier, ACC interrogated seven Pretrobangla officials on August 16 in the first phase, it will interrogate eight on Tuesday and the remaining officials on August 29 and 30.
The Pretrobangla officials who are going to face the interrogation on Tuesday are -- General Manager (Mine Operation) Abu Taher Mohammad Nuruzzaman Choudhury, Deputy Manager A K M Khaledul Islam, Deputy Manager (Maintenance and Operation) Morsheduzzaman, Deputy Manager (Production Management) Habibur Rahman, Deputy Manager (Mine Development) Zahedur Rahman, Deputy Manager (Ventilation Management) Sattyndranath Barman, Deputy General Manager ( Mine Planning Operation) Jobayer Ali and Manager (Security) Syed Imam Hasan.
The officials who faced the interrogation earlier were -- Deputy General Manager Nazmul Haque, Manager (Coal Handling Management) Shoyebur Rahman, Manager (Production Management) Syed Masud, Deputy Manager (Maintenance and Operation) Mahbub Hossain, Assistant Manager (Production Management) Moniruzzaman, Assistant Manager (Coal Handling Management) Md. Mahbud Rashid, and Manager (Store) Md, Didarul Kabir.
ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam, who is serving as the investigation officer, quizzed the seven officials.
Barapukuria Coal-fired Thermal Power Plant had to be shut down for the mysterious disappearance of a huge volume of coal from the Barapukuria Coal Mine.
The disappearance of coal came to light on July 22, when a team from the Power Development Board visited the coal mine and found that there was no adequate reserve of coal in the yard of the mine.
As per the official investigation, the stock was found to have a shortage of 148,000 tonnes of coal.
A case was filed with Parbatipur Police Station on July 24 against 19 officials. The case was later transferred to the Anti-Corruption Commission for investigation, reports UNB.
