The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started quizzing six engineers of the Public Works Department for their involvement in pillow purchasing scam for Green City Housing Project under Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) Project.
A probe body led by deputy director Md Nasir Uddin started questioning them at ACC head office around 10:00am, confirmed ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.
Earlier on October 31, ACC summoned a total of 33 engineers of the Public Works Department asking them to appear before it between November 6 and November 13.
All the 33 engineers have been asked to place their statements before the ACC at that time, according to the summon.
In a latter, the ACC brought allegation against executive engineer of PWD in Pabna and his other associates for accumulating crores of money abusing power and showing abnormal prices in purchasing necessary equipment of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant.
According to reports of the mass as well as the social media, the purchase prices of various items to furnish the project’s 966 flats for the Russian engineers and others were abnormally higher than the market prices.
The reports claimed that each pillow was bought for Tk 5,957 and the cost of carrying it to a flat was Tk 760. An electric stove cost Tk 7,747 and the carrying cost from the ground floor to the top one cost Tk 6,650.