The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a fraud case against five people including former IGP of Police Benazir Ahmed for providing passports with false information.
In a press release, ACC said that retired Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed, while working as Commissioner of Police, Director General of RAB in Dhaka, mentioned ‘Private Service’ in the ‘Profession’ column of the passport application, despite being a government employee, resorting to forgery, criminal misconduct and lies.
Benazir Ahmed applied for machine readable passport or e-passport without departmental no-objection letter at various times.
According to the notification, four officials of the Divisional Passport and Visa Office, Agargaon, knowingly and in collusion with criminal misconduct, gave final approval for the issue of General Passport or e-Passport in the name of Benazir Ahmed, despite being fully aware of the official identity of Benazir Ahmed, without obtaining or verifying the Departmental No Objection Certificate. .
It has been mentioned in the notification that four officials of Dhaka’s passport office have committed punishable offences.
Four officials of passport office are former director Md Fazlul Haque, former director Munsi Mueed Ikram, director Md Abdullah Al Mamun and technical manager Sahena Haque.
In the meantime, the ACC is investigating the allegations of illegal acquisition of wealth by Benazir Ahmed.
So far, investigations have found a total of 12 flats in Dhaka, 697 bighas of land in different districts, 19 company shares, savings certificates worth Tk 30 lakh, 33 bank accounts and three BO accounts (Beneficiary Owners Accounts of Share Business) in the name of Benazir and his wife and children.
The judicial court has ordered the seizure of these assets. Benazir Ahmed left the country on May 4 before the court order came
