A former shipping secretary Monday confessed to irregularities in awarding a container handling deal to a firm on the last day of former caretaker adviser MA Matin in office, the Financial Express Bangladesh reported.
Sheikh AK Motahar Hossain made the confession at a meeting of the parliamentary probe committee, said its head Shah Alam.
According to Alam, Hossain said he was "under pressure" from Matin to award the contract of container handling work in Chittagong port to Ishaq Brothers, which had no prior experience, on January 6, the last day of Matin in office as adviser.
"The secretary at our meeting has given a written statement to the probe committee saying there were some irregularities in the process of appointment," said Alam.
"I made some faults in good faith."
"Besides, I was under pressure from adviser MA Matin," the chairman quoted Hossain as saying.
Matin earlier at a press conference denied wrongdoing after the parliamentary standing committee on shipping ministry on May 27 formed a four-member committee to investigate the alleged corruption.
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Source: cargonewsasia
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