Jumbangla Desk: By paying money to develop mobile banking service, the flight schedule of the plane to go to the desired country is illegally matched. The allegations have been made against some dishonest cabin crew of the company.

Biman

Recently in a search of Biman, this novel flight purchase information was found. A show cause notice has been issued to 58 cabin crew in this incident. At least 40 others are in the process of being notified. All of them used to buy flights with money in Bkash and cash account of some people of a syndicate.

Recently, 2 cabin crew were withdrawn from the crew scheduling department of the flight operations department of Biman on various charges including gold smuggling. After checking the development accounts of several officials and employees of the scheduling department along with those two crews, this terrible information of illegal flight schedule purchase was found. The incident created a sensation in the entire plane.

A senior official of Biman's security department confirmed this on condition of anonymity. He said that several cabin crew and officials working in the scheduling department have been implicated in various allegations including buying and selling flight schedules with money.

After that, their personal mobile banking accounts were developed and cash statements were examined to confirm the allegations. He said the account details of the accused cabin crew were taken from Vikas and Nagd through letters. Information of remittances of 58 cabin crew at various times was found in those accounts.

Research has revealed that Biman has to pay more money to get flights to European countries including the Middle East. Because unscrupulous cabin crews feel more comfortable bringing various illegal goods including gold smuggling if they can travel to these countries. Smugglers use these cabins as crew carriers. In return, he gave them a large amount of money per flight.

On September 18, a report titled 'Crew of the plane's VIP flight remains healthy' was published. The report detailed how unscrupulous crews smuggled gold by buying airline flights. According to the report, the most expensive routes for smugglers are Dubai, Jeddah, Riyadh, Dammam and Kuwait.

Some corrupt officials of Biman's scheduling, operation wing are involved in selling the flight. Then the pre-purchased cockpit and cabin crew of the cycle were assigned duty on the respective flights. Among them, cabin crew were mainly used as carriers of contraband. The smuggling godfathers used aircraft flights with their own bought-in crews to import and smuggle shipments of gold, drugs and foreign currency.

The Yugantar report mentioned the appointment of two junior pursers outside the organogram in the cabin crew of Biman. They are Junior Purser Taif and Junior Purser Farooq. The two were removed from the scheduling department soon after the report was published.

Those concerned said that after their removal, various misdeeds of the scheduling department started coming out.

It is learned that Taif and Farooq formed a syndicate headed by his close cousins ​​Junior Purser Hashmi, Junior Purser Sarfaraz and Junior Purser Anand to take control of the flight schedule. They used to make illegal transactions of buying and selling flights in different development accounts as well as themselves. A list of 100 such cabin crew who have taken flight with money in their BKash account has also been prepared. The scheduler Mirage has already been suspended by the aviation authority. However, the syndicate's five Pandavas - Taif, Farooq, Hashmi, Sarfaraz and Anand - are still in recovery. A show cause notice has been given to 58 people as the crime has been proved in the preliminary investigation of the security department. A copy of the notice is with this reporter.

One such notice said, 'In the investigation of the Aviation Security Department, allegations have been made against you that you have received various flight privileges through illegal financial transactions in the scheduler Mirajul Islam's Bikash account at various times. Such unlawful conduct by you amounts to misconduct under the Air Staff Regulations 1979.' This letter is signed by Mohiuddin Ahmed, General Manager, Customer Service Department.

Allegedly, this syndicate in the scheduling department was overseen entirely by a woman manager of the planning and scheduling department, who was once a cabin crew.

According to Biman sources, a post graduation degree is required to become a manager in Biman's flight services. But this woman manager only passed intermediate and got this position unprecedentedly by spreading the influence of several influential political leaders of the former Awami League government.

There are complaints - due to the inefficiency of this manager, it has not been possible to raise the flight service department of Biman to international standards. Because this manager was the daughter-in-law of a former minister of Chittagong Awami League, she did not care about anyone.

Not only that, about 29 years ago, this female crew was accused of tarnishing the aircraft, a crime punishable by death in Saudi Arabia. But because of that Chittagong minister, no action could be taken against him. She was so influential that eventually the female crew had to be renamed Kahinoor.

A pilot, who did not want to be named, said that they would never fly to Saudi Arabia with this Kohinoor. Saudi Arabian authorities were informed that the female crew member had been ejected from the plane and that she had died. Even when the crew named Kahinoor was on the flight and that flight was in the air of Saudi Arabia, they were always under tension. Because if for some reason that flight has to land in Saudi Arabia then they will be guilty of protecting Kohinoor and will have to suffer the punishment. Despite all this, women cabin crew are still employed in aircraft.

Complaints of the concerned - cabin crew brought gold from abroad and smuggled gold out through BFCC, hangar workers and cleaners. In one such incident, Jahangir Alam, an employee of Biman's BFCC, was arrested by Dhaka Custom House with 8 kg of gold bars.

According to his confession, former general manager of BFCC Iqbal Ahmed Aliza, manager Ragib Hossain and Md. A syndicate of Ali, Enamul Haque Mridha, Badiuzzaman, Mozammel Haque, Sahidul Islam smuggled gold and drugs brought from abroad through food packets of BFCC.

But even though there is an investigation committee in this incident, there have been allegations of keeping the top officials out of touch. However, in the investigation report, it is said about Aliza, he himself used to take out the food packets of BFCC illegally and irregularly. The investigation committee believes that these packets may contain gold or illegal goods.

Earlier, a gold smuggler named Palash was accused of buying the flight schedule of Biman. Palash used to purchase the flight schedule of different routes of Biman by introducing himself as the husband of an airline cabin crew. Then on those flights he used to bring and take various valuable products including gold, medicines from different countries with his favorite crew.

In this incident, flight steward Mazharul Islam Russell was arrested along with 2 kg of gold based on an intelligence report given by the Ministry of Home Affairs. Later, a team of Metropolitan Detective Police remanded him and interrogated him. Based on his information, the then DGM of Biman Flight Service Emdad Hossain, then Chief of Planning and Scheduling Captain Abu Mohammad Aslam Shahid, Manager (Scheduling) Tozammel Haque, contractor Mahmudul Haque Palash, Farhan Money Exchange owner Harunur Rashid were arrested.

According to the intelligence report, 5 pilots, 4 co-pilots, 25 cabin crew, 15 flight stewards, 3 flight pursers and 5 chief pursers, including Palash's wife cabin crew Noorjahan, are involved in gold smuggling. is

Major Mahmudul Hasan, general manager of Biman's security department, said that several raids have been conducted on the Biman with information from the previous incidents of gold smuggling and baggage theft. Action has been taken against many including show cause notices. Action is ongoing. Several decisions have also been taken to prevent the allegations of gold smuggling and luggage snatching against dishonest officers and employees of various branches including dishonest cabin crew, traffic and cargo. It has been decided to purchase 120 high-end and high-end body cameras to prevent baggage theft. Tenders have been invited for the purchase of the cameras.

Coordinator Hasnat demanded to cancel the constitution

He said, in the first instance, those who will be involved in baggage management in the traffic and cargo department will have to read these body cameras and do their duty. The cameras cannot be turned off at will. The alarm will sound when the body is opened or closed. Those who will operate the cameras themselves will not be able to manipulate them in any way.