Misappropriation of Tk 34.89cr: PBI asked to probe case against Khokon

A Dhaka court today directed the deputy inspector general of Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) to investigate the case filed against Dhaka South City Corporation's former mayor Sayeed Khokon and six others over embezzlement of Tk 34.89 crore.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashek Imam passed the order a day after Delwar Hossain, president of Traders' Owners Association of Fulbaria City Supermarket-2 in the capital's Gulistan, filed the case against them.

The magistrate also directed PBI to submit a report after an investigation into the allegations by January 31 next year, Md Atiqur Rahman, bench assistant of the court, told The Daily Star.

The six other accused are: Yusuf Ali Sardar, former chief revenue officer of the city corporation, Md Mazed, former deputy assistant engineer of the city corporation, and their assistants Kamrul Hasan, Helena Akter, Atiqur Rahman Swapan and Md Walid.

According to the case document, the accused conspired and built shops, violating the main design of Fulbaria City Supermarket-2. The accused then announced allotment of the shops.

In the case statement, the complainant mentioned that the accused took around Tk 34.89 crore from him and 26 other traders in the name of "allocating shops at the market's blocks -- A, B and C" between June 21, 2015 and September 29 last year. But now, the shops are being demolished for violating the original design of the market.