Public Health ‘Big Shot’ Mashiur, accused of cheating by taking bribes through banks to give tenders
# To take the tender, the bribe payment slip has to be submitted to the bank
# Withdrawal of money without working on Haor project
# Construction of houses in Jamalpur with money from contractors
# Abuse, death threats to staff and contractors
Muhammad Mashiur Rahman, Executive Engineer of Public Health Engineering Directorate of Netrakona district. This government office is located in the neighboring Netrakona district. There are allegations against him starting from tender control.
He is also accused of misbehaving with office staff and contractors and threatening to kill them, including embezzling money without working, accepting bribes through banks by promising to get tenders. Along with this, allegations have also been raised that they are building houses in Jamalpur by taking money from contractors. However, Executive Engineer Moshiur Rahman denied these allegations. He claims that someone is plotting against him.
According to the source of the complaint of a complainant, he took Tk. 3 lakh as a bribe through Sonali Bank account of BUET branch for getting tender for repair work of 30 wash blocks in Madan and Khaliajuri upazilas of Netrakona. If he did not work with the money, he attacked him when he asked for the money back. When complaining to the Chief Engineer, Mashiur proudly said, "Do whatever you want, those Chief Engineers can't do anything to me."
He is also accused of building houses in Jamalpur by taking money from contractors including collecting bills for installation of 50 tube wells of Haor project in Kalmakanda and abusing the staff and contractors in inaudible language and threatening to kill them for various reasons.
When asked about the complaint, Netrakona Public Health Executive Engineer Moshiur Rahman told Barta24.com that this complaint is false. I don't even know the person who made the complaint.
The receipt of the money given to your account through the bank is attached in the charge sheet, if you do not know him, then why did a stranger give so much money to your account, he said, this money was deposited by my staff. There is a signature there, that of my accountant. If the contractor had submitted, he would have signed. My accountant's signature was gone.
In response to the question that if your account assistant or your office staff deposited the money, then how the receipt of that money went into the hands of someone else, Moshiur said, "I don't know that." This is my question too because I have that slip too.
In the complaint written by the contractor Haji Abdul Wahab to the Secretary of the Ministry of Local Government, "Complaint regarding Executive Engineer Moshiur Rahman's non-payment of cash (proof attached)", it is said, "This is my submission to you that I am a 3rd-tier contractor in Netrakona district. I participated in small and medium quality work in various government departments including Public Health Engineering Directorate. When talking about the work to Mr. Moshiur Rahman, Executive Engineer of Directorate of Public Health and Engineering, Netrakona, he showed the estimate of 30 wash block repair works in Madan and Khaliajuri upazilas and said, I will give you this work, you prepare, how will you work in the E-GP system. He said I will do the quotation by manual tender. if you want to do the work I have to pay Tk. 3 lakhs, he gave me an account number 4404034166124 of Sonali Bank, BUET branch. Ask him to give the original slip by sending money to that address. As promised, I went to Sonali Bank Netrakona branch on April 3 and deposited the money and submitted the original slip to him and asked him to issue a work order.
In the complaint, Haji Abdul Wahab also wrote, "He (Mashiur) asked to meet on 8th." When I went to him on the 8th, he said that now there is a little problem and he is late for a couple of months. When I asked for my hard earned money back, they attacked me and told me to do whatever they want; those Chief Engineers can't do anything for me. Immediately called the Chief Engineer sir, he hung up. When I spoke to Shafiq Bhai, the contractor, he asked me to file a complaint with the secretary. Shafiq Bhai also said that he has done many irregularities in the Haor project, his close friend is the Engineer of Kalmakanda Upazila and in the same area, he collected the bill without doing the work of installing 50 tube wells of the Haor project in Kalmakanda, I also learned that he is building houses in Jamalpur by taking money from the contractors. He was very ill-tempered, verbally abused office staff and contractors and threatened to kill me, I heard.'
He also said in the complaint, "Netrakona Public Health Engineer Moshiur of Buet was the leader of the Chhatra Dal. Complaining to the office doesn't do anything, so I am forced to appeal to you. I have attached the photocopy of the bank slip of depositing three lakh taka to his own account number as proof. I am making an urgent request to investigate the matter and take necessary measures.
When asked about the complaints, Superintending Engineer of Mymensingh Circle of Public Health Engineering Directorate Md. Abdul Awal told Barta24.com, "I do not know about these complaints. I have not received any complaints. I will look into the matter if there is a complaint.
But I don't think that's the case, he said. Aren't there many evil people? I heard about the bank slip. But that does not mean that he took this money from there. Those who take bribes, I think they don't take bribes through banks.