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2 customs officials held for bribery
The joint forces arrested two customs officials and a security man of Chittagong Customs while they were taking bribe from an employee of a private inland container depot (ICD) here yesterday. The forces also held the employee of the private ICD and a middleman.Immediately after the arrest of the two customs officials--Principal Appraiser Emdadul Haq and Preventive Officer Md Anisul Haq--the authorities concerned put the two under suspension. The three other arrestees are customs security man Md Masum, employee of the private ICD Masud Parvez and middleman Humayun Kabir. Receiving information that the customs officials were taking bribe from an employee of private ICD of Ishaq Brothers Limited through a middleman for documentation of export and import goods at Chittagong Customs House, the joint forces raided the depot at around 2:00pm and arrested the five. They recovered Tk 14,000 from the customs officials and handed over the five to Bandar Police Station. Posted by: Fred 2007-06-26 |
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