DHAKA: A reference of possible list of bribery made by SNC Lavalin now on the table of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Following the reference, former communication minister Syed Abul Hossian and state minister for foreign affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury would be summoned again.
A reliable source of the ACC told banglanews that some high profile persons might be enlisted for the bribery list of Canada.
The investigation led by Anti Corruption Commission Deputy Director Mirza Jahidul Alam, is underway in full speed.
Following the matter, ACC Chairman Badiuzzaman told, “We are trying to complete the investigation of Padma Bridge scam. We may interrogate more persons for the sake of last moment inquiries.”
On the other hand, the sources said that ACC also got more clues of corruption from Canada.
Earlier, Abul Hasan Chowdhury got exemption from the much-talked-about Padma Bridge corruption case.
A Canadian court discharged him from the allegation.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice suspended the case as Chowdhury was a foreign citizen and the court had no authority despite there was evidence of the allegation against the state minister.
But the court said if Canada, in future, could establish jurisdiction over the accused, then prosecution could appeal to the court to change the decision.
On December 17, ACC filed a corruption case against seven officials, including former bridge secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan on charge of corruption in Padma bridge project.
The other accused in the case are Roads and Highways Division executive engineer Riaz Ahmed Jaber, Engineer and Planning Consulted Limited DMD Muhammad Mostafa, SNC-Lavalin former director Muhammad Ismail.
Investigators found out a notebook of SNC-Lavalin official Ramesh where he wrote down the percentage of bribe to offer to various persons concerned with the much-talked Padma Bridge, a massive infrastructure project designed to link Bangladesh’s southwest with the capital city Dhaka.
Some of the information was also found from the laptop of Ismail, another official of Canadian engineering company SNC-Lavalin.
Based on the findings, Canadian police arrested these two officials and filed a case under ‘Corruption of Foreign Policy Act.’
BDST: 1639 HRS, MAY 15, 2014
