Jumbangla Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has launched an investigation against the former General Manager (GM) of Bangladesh Television (BTV) Mahfuza Akhter on allegations of acquiring wealth of around Tk 400 crore through corruption and irregularities . He has become the owner of huge wealth in the country and abroad in 15 and a half years by accepting bribes from artists, craftsmen, contractors, embezzling money from government projects and collecting crores of bills without making events.

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According to sources, Sujit Roy, Chittagong's heroic freedom fighter and spokesman for Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, submitted a complaint to the ACC head office at Segunbagicha on March 7 last year. The ACC accepted the complaint and forwarded it to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for departmental investigation. On March 19 of the same year, music artist Asit Ranjan Biswas and music artist Rubel Mia on behalf of the artist society filed various complaints with the Director General. Apart from this, a 132-page detailed complaint against Mahfuza Akhtar was submitted to ACC.

After verifying the complaint and investigating through ACC's own intelligence unit, the commission decided to conduct a public inquiry against him. However, when Mahfuza Akhtar was contacted on the mobile phone to know about these allegations, he expressed reluctance to comment on the matter. According to the complaint, Mahfuza Akhtar illegally produced a total of 639 programs in one year from January to December 2022 by himself while in charge of Chittagong Center of BTB.

He embezzled a total of 79 lakh 4 thousand taka by showing the construction of numerous programs without promoting them. Apart from this, he embezzled Tk 1 crore 29 lakh by using the money of one code in another code. He broke the rules of PPR, without inviting any tenders, showed 2-3 direct purchases daily and embezzled money without buying the goods. On the other hand, in the financial year 2021-22, he embezzled Tk 47 lakh 4 thousand by showing daily purchases of Tk 25 thousand without complying with the rules of PPR. After joining the Chittagong center, he embezzled Tk 21 lakh 7 thousand by showing the purchase of various furniture and curtains.

On November 12, the former BTV GM Mahfuza Akhtar was interrogated by the ACC for a whole day on the charge of acquiring illegal assets worth crores of rupees through corruption and arbitrariness during the Awami League government. The organization says that he was interrogated on the allegation of embezzlement of 21 crore rupees. Among them, there is an allegation of loss of Tk 13 crore with the connivance of three officials from BTV's Shilpi Sammani sector. ACC Deputy Director (Public Relations) Aktarul Islam said, based on ACC policy, his statement was taken to inquire about assets during the investigation phase. The corruption charges against him are under investigation.

According to ACC sources, Mahfuza Akhtar bought a house in Bengali Town, Toronto, Canada for 3 million dollars on Road No. 8. Apart from this, Dhaka and Rangpur have about hundred crores of wealth in various areas. Among them, there is an eight-storey house in Bhatara of the capital. A luxury flat of 3000 square feet in Gulshan-Niketan, another flat of about 2500 square feet in Rampura-Bansree, a six-storey house on seven kathas of land in Mistripara, Rangpur, two more similar houses in New Jummapara, a petrol pump and a few bigha of land in Gangachra area and two expensive private Who has it? It is known that Mahfuza Akhter embezzled an additional 13.28 million taka from the budget in the name of construction of the program in the fiscal year 2022-23 without obtaining approval in the name of expenses.

Under the weekly and serial drama production order, the fake artist created and embezzled 91 lakh taka by showing production and promotion of drama in the name of Mohsin Sardar. Passed 343 big budget bills by themselves and embezzled 47 lakh taka. From 2014 to 2019, he embezzled Tk 1 crore 12 lakh by issuing checks in fake name as the producer of various dramas. Apart from this, he embezzled Tk 4 crore 51 lakh from 2014 to 2018 by creating a syndicate as the PD of JICA's HD project.