The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The Anti-Corruption Commission Thursday found out and questioned ex-director of the Prime Minister's Office Talebur Rahman and a GATCO accountant in connection with the container-handling scam case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia, her younger son and 11 others.

Sources said investigation officer and ACC deputy director Jahirul Huda managed to contact Taleb on Wednesday night and asked him to appear in person at the Commission where he was quizzed. GATCO accountant Monirul Islam Rahat faced the questioning after being summoned by the investigation officer.

Failing to obtain the addresses of three former PMO officials, including principal secretary Dr Kamal Uddin Siddiqui, for questioning, Huda wrote a letter on Wednesday to Establishment Ministry seeking its cooperation in getting their whereabouts. The investigation officer also today managed to talk to former director general Mahmudul Karim, now the economic minister at the Bangladesh Consulate in New York, and asked him to send his statement to the anti-corruption watchdog.