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A departmental probe has given a clean chit to former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta in the Tk 70 lakh scandal that involved Suranjit's aide Omar Faruq Talukder and two railway high-ups.

 

A departmental probe has given a clean chit to former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta in the Tk 70 lakh scandal that involved Suranjit's aide Omar Faruq Talukder and two railway high-ups.

legal practice and received the “We did not find any link between the former railway minister and the cash haul. His APS Faruq claimed that the money he was carrying in his private vehicle belonged to him,” Bangladesh Railway Director General Abu Taher, who headed the probe body, told the media after submitting the probe report yesterday. 

Faruq, the sacked APS of Suranjit, previously told the Anti-Corruption Commission that of the Tk 70 lakh seized from his vehicle, he earned Tk 45 lakh from rest from his expatriate brother-in-law. The ACC asked him to submit proofs in support of his claims in 15 days, but he didn't appear before the ACC.

Though Taher told journalists that the money belonged to Faruq, the probe report said the matter should be sent to the ACC to verify the source of the money.

The railway DG said it was not the probe body's jurisdiction to determine the source of the money.

He said none other than Suranjit's assistant personal secretary Faruq knew about the money.

“They called the former minister that night to discuss the launching of a train but could not contact him as the minister was asleep,” said Taher, who handed over the report to Railway Secretary Fazle Kabir.