The New Nation - Internet Edition

BUSINESS REPORT

Over 5,000 officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Limited, both in and out of service, have submitted their wealth statements to the army-led national taskforce against serious crimes.

Sources with the national airlines, now a public limited company, said the taskforce on February 12 asked the Biman officials to submit their wealth statements.

The taskforce, which is under the supervision of the National Coordination Committee on serious crimes and corruption, is now scrutinising the wealth statements.

'Some of the officials are being questioned on telephone while a few have been asked to provide documents against their wealth statements,' a Biman official told The New Nation.

The official said the taskforce would submit a list of the suspected corrupt Biman officials to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for taking necessary action.

According to the Biman sources, about 1,800 members of the Biman, who went on retirement under its Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS), would not be left out of the clean-up drive.

The investigators are collecting information about them and will ask them to submit necessary papers and documents to substantiate their wealth statements.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines in the middle of last year offered its employees the golden-handshake option under the VRS as part of the government plan to turn the national flag carrier into a public limited company (PLC).