Suspended DIG Mizan, ACC director Basir charged in bribery case

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday approved a charge sheet against suspended deputy inspector general (DIG) Mizanur Rahman and suspended ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir in a case over Tk 4 million bribery scandal, reports news agency UNB.

The decision was taken as the allegation against DIG Mizan and Basir has been proved in primary investigation, said ACC secretary Muhammad Delwar Bakht.

The suspended DIG allegedly gave Tk 4 million to ACC director Khandaker Enamul Basir to get clean chit in a corruption case, he said.

Mizan was previously denied bail thrice on 12 November, 31 July and 28 August while Basir was denied bail on 23 July last year in the case filed by ACC.

On 16 July last year, ACC director Sheikh Mohammad Fanafillah filed the case against the suspended DIG and Basir with Dhaka-1 coordinated district office over the bribery scandal.

A private TV channel had reported that Mizan gave Tk 4 million to Basir to get clean chit in a corruption case.

DIG Mizan was an additional commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). He was withdrawn on 9 January, last year following the allegation of threatening a female news presenter of a private television channel.

He had also reportedly married a woman forcibly and tortured her. Mizan allegedly picked the 25-year-old woman up in July, 2017 and then forcibly married her.

He had also implicated her in a false case whereby she was arrested and remained in jail for three weeks.

The ACC on 24 June last filed another case against four people, including Mizan, for amassing illegal wealth and concealing information.

According to the case statement, the ACC found that he accumulated wealth worth Tk 32.8 million while he concealed information of wealth worth Tk 37 million in his wealth statement.