BTRC Deputy Director Md. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against Hasibul Kabir, chairman and MD of IGW operator Bestek Telecom.

On Sunday (May 26), ACC’s Dhaka Integrated District Office, the agency’s director Jalal Uddin Ahmed filed the case as the plaintiff.

ACC Public Relations Officer Aktarul Islam confirmed the matter.

According to the statement, Bestek Telecom Limited is an IGW licensed company from BTRC for exporting services. There is an obligation to bring valuable foreign currency into Bangladesh through a foreign currency or FC account in the banking channel for international incoming calls or export of services. But during the investigation, 101 crore 6 lakh 53 thousand 150 call minutes were received through IGW operator Bestek Telecom in 9 months from February to October 2013. For the price of that service, 0.03 US dollars per call minute, 3 crore 3 lakh 19 thousand 594 US dollars or 234 crore 72 lakh 54 thousand 68 taka should be deposited in the government treasury.

In this regard, from the records received by the Gulshan branch of Standard Chartered Bank, it can be seen that only 46 lakh 8 thousand 461 US dollars or 35 crore 57 lakh 78 thousand 439 taka have been deposited. The remaining 2 crore 57 lakh 11 thousand 134 US dollars did not come to the country. Which is about 199 crore 14 lakh 75 thousand 629 taka in Bangladeshi currency. At that time, the chairman and MD of the organization was Md. Tariqul Islam and Enayet Kabir. They have committed smuggling or money laundering crimes in violation of existing money laundering laws despite the interests of Bangladesh as a state.

For that reason, those two officers of Bestec Telecom and the responsible officer of BTRC have been charged under section 4(2) (3) of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2012 for committing crimes related to money laundering by smuggling foreign currency or property or not bringing foreign currency that can be brought to Bangladesh from abroad. ACC has filed a case against Hasibul Kabir.