The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three councilors and a municipal employee of Cox's Bazar Municipality, including the current and former ones, for allegedly helping Rohingyas to obtain passports by providing various documents including citizenship certificates.
Chittagong-2 Assistant Deputy Director of ACC, Sharif Uddin, said that they were arrested in a raid in different areas of Cox's Bazar on Sunday morning.
The arrestees are Mizanur Rahman, councilor of ward 2 of Cox's Bazar municipality, Jabed Mohammad Kaiser Nobel, former councilor of ward 10, Rafiqul Islam, former councilor of ward 11 and Didarul Islam Mubin, an employee Sharif Uddin said that an ACC team had arrested three former and current councilors of Cox's Bazar municipality and a municipal employee on charges of taking bribe and helping Rohingya citizens to obtain Bangladeshi passports. The detainees have been accused of abusing their power and providing attested birth certificates and other fake documents to Rohingya citizens.
The ACC Assistant Deputy Director said, “An ACC investigation team has been working on this for a long time. As the allegations were later found to be true, 12 cases were filed with the ACC on March 25 against them.”
Sharif Uddin said the arrested persons were produced in the court of Cox's Bazar Special Judge Mohammad Ismail at noon and the judge ordered to send them to the district jail. The detainees will be remanded for questioning later.
