ACC arrests customs officer | Others

JASHORE, Oct 7, 2025 (BSS) - The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today said they arrested a customs officer from Belapole land border on bribery charges along with a NGO worker suspecting him to be her accomplice. ACC Director General Akhtar Hossain said the graft body personnel arrested customs department’s revenue officer Shamima Akter from western Jashore today on charges of routinely taking bribes from clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents at the western land border port with India. Hossain said an ACC team earlier on Monday arrested NGO worker Hasibur Rahman from Benapole Custom House complex adding he used to collect bribes on Akter’s behalf. ACC’s deputy director in Jashore Al Amin, who served as the investigation officer in the case, meanwhile,...