The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Dhaka City Mayor Sadek Hossain Khoka, one of the corrupt suspects, Saturday said he did not conceal any information in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission Thursday.

In a press briefing at his official residence at Hare Road, Khoka said the assets possessed by himself, his wife, son and daughter are worth about Tk 8.58 crore.

He also declared that there is no asset abroad in his name.

Khoka, who was issued notice by ACC on November 18 to submit his wealth statement, said there are dissimilarities between the information he submitted and the ones given to journalists.

Pointing out some of the dissimilarities to reporters, he said maybe the information was given hurriedly causing the dissimilarities.

Khoka said some of the houses shown as his own are ancestral and would be distributed among other inheritors. The house in Munshiganj, for instance, is in his father and uncle's names and he owns 20 percent of half of the house, he added.

About the sources of his wealth, the Mayor said he got Tk 4.5 crore from shares, Tk 1 crore from salaries and allowances as mayor, minister and MP, Tk 1.69 crore from savings accounts and Tk 1.5 crore from house rent.