Syed Abed Ali, a former driver of the Public Service Commission (PSC), has assets worth more than Tk 50 crore. He owns a six-storey building and three flats in Dhaka in addition to his car. He has a duplex building in his village in Madaripur, according to CID primary investigation.
"The assets include a six-story building in Mirpurs Paikpara area, three flats in West Shewrapara and a Harrier SUV and a Toyota Premio car and cash in banks accounts," an official involved in the investigation said. CID has already seized the vehicles.
"Abed Ali recently sold two more flats in the West Shewrapara building. We suspected that he had more property and we are investigating it," the CID officer said.
At least 17 people, including Abed and his son Syed Sohanur Rahman Siam, suspended Relief and Disaster Management Secretary of Dhaka North City unit Chhatra League, and six PSC officials were arrested by the CID for their alleged involvement in leaking questions of government job exams including BCS exams.
The CID official said Abed lost his job at the PSC due to a question leak allegation in 2015. Still, he had run his racket with the help of some PSC officials.
The Criminal Investigation Department of Police has filed a case with the Paltan Police Station over the leaking of the question paper for the Public Service Commission (PSC) recruitment exam.
Seventeen people, including former and current seven PSC staff members, detained over the past few days in connection to the leaks were shown arrested in the case. The CID named those 17 arrested along with seven to eight unidentified suspects in the case, said Touhidul Islam, Special Superintendent of Police at the CIDs cyber investigation wing.
Moinul Hossain Molla, chief of Paltan Police Station, said the CID filed the case accusing suspects of leaking exam papers. "They will investigate the case under the Public Service Commission Act."
An investigative report aired on Sunday by Channel 24, a private television station, exposed a syndicates prolonged involvement in cheating on various exams, including Bangladesh Civil Service tests under the PSC, spanning over a decade. The report included images of six members of this syndicate.
Following the broadcast, the CID launched an operation to bust the syndicate. Abeds son Syed Sohanur Rahman Siam was also among the arrested.
The others include PSC deputy directors Abu Zafar and Jahangir Alam, assistant director Alamgir Kabir, auditor Priyanath Roy, dispatch rider Khalilur Rahman, and office assistant Sajedul Islam.
The CID also arrested Shahadat Hossain, security guard at the Narayanganj Regional Passport Office, Mamunur Rashid, a staff member at the Dhaka Passport Office, Niyamun Hasan, a medical technician of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, former army personnel Noman Siddique, former Chhatra League leader Abu Solaiman Md Sohel, businessman Sakhawat Hossain and his brother Sayem Hossain, Jahidul Islam and Liton Sarker.
PSC suspended five people including, deputy directors Abu Zafar and Jahangir Alam, assistant director Alamgir Kabir and PSC employee dispatch rider Khalilur Rahman and office assistant Sajedul Islam.
Meanwhile, the PSC has formed a three-member strong probe committee to scrutinise the report published about the exam paper leak.
Commission Chairman Md Sohorab Hossain formed the committee on Monday, said PSC Public Relations Officer SM Motiur Rahman.
The committee includes PSC Joint Secretary Abdul Aleem Khan, Director Mohammad Azizul Haque and Director Dilawez Durdana.
