Rohingya NID scam: ACC files case against 11

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Chattogram, June 15 - Anti Corruption Unit on Tuesday filed a case against 11 including public officials for helping Rohingyas get Bangladeshi National ID cards and passports.
Deputy assistant director of ACC district integrated office of Chattogram-2, Md  Sharif Uddin, filed the case.
Accused officials and public representatives are office secretary of Doublemooring thana election office Md Jaynal Abedin, senior district election officer MLSS Md Nur Ahmmed; Saifuddin Chowdhury, data entry officer of Hathazari election office, technical expert of Keraniganj Upazila election office Satya Sundar Dey, former chairman of Hathazari-Mirzapur union Md Nurul Absar; Ward-5 member of Mirzapur UP Md Nurul Islam, and former birth certificate official of Mirzapur UP Md Belal Uddin.
Besides, Md Abdur Salam, Md Azizur Rahman, Ramzan Bibi and Najir Ahmed, four residents of Mirzapur union, were also accused in the case.
In 2019 a Rohingya woman named Ramjan Bibi was arrested while trying to collect her NID as a Bangladeshi citizen from the Chattogram EC office.
Later during interrogation, she confessed that many Rohingya citizens were getting NID cards with the help of some officials of the EC office.
Many of the accused were arrested after that from different parts of the country, including the main perpetrators, according to investigators.
ACC in its investigation got proof of the accused helping each other in acquiring false NID cards and birth certificates. - UNB