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Rice embezzlement: ACC sues a Patuakhali dealer

| Updated: May 18, 2020 19:43:31


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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lodged a case for alleged embezzlement of 2,850 kg of rice against a dealer of Patuakhali meant for the government’s Food-Friendly (Khadya Bandhob) Programme (FFP).

Deputy Assistant Director of ACC Integrated Patuakhali District Office Md Arif Hossain filed the case under Section 409/420 of the Penal Code, 1860 in Patuakhali.

Abdul Hai Sikder, a dealer of Dashmina Union Parishad in Dashmina upazila of Patuakhali district, was accused in the case.

The dealer embezzled a total of 2,850 kg rice of 19 beneficiaries of the wards number eight and number nine of the Dashmina Union Parishad under for the government’s Food-Friendly Programme, according to the case statement.

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