The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started an investigation against Beximco Pharma Vice Chairman Salman F. Rahman on charges of embezzling Tk 22,000 crore from the state in the name of buying the coronavirus vaccine. The decision to investigate him was made on Monday.
The agency’s Director General Akhter Hossain gave this information at the ACC’s head office in Segunbagicha, Dhaka. He said that the cost of distributing the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine imported from India was shown to be Tk 40,000 crore.
But the actual cost was Tk 18,000 crore. The remaining Tk 22,000 crore was embezzled by Salman F. Rahman and his syndicate.