The list of certificate fraudsters is getting longer

The list of those involved in technical education board certificate fraud is getting longer. Not only the technical education board, but also the names of officials and employees of other government institutions including the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Ministry of Education are coming up in this fraud. The DB officials concerned with the investigation have also received information about taking jobs in government positions with fake certificates. A lot of snakes come out to dig earthworms. Former Chairman of Technical Education Board. Ali Akbar’s wife deleted. Detective Police (DB) officers have received such information by questioning several arrested persons including Sehela Parveen and computer cell system analyst AKM Shamsuzzaman.
A DB ASP involved in the investigation told Inquilab on condition of anonymity that besides those arrested, several other Raghabboals were involved in the certificate forgery. They are also being listed. Will be brought under the law soon. At least 30 other people including ACC officials, directors of various educational institutions are involved in this certificate fraud, DB has received information. The work of making the list is going on by verifying the information about them. Brokers and directors of various educational institutions from different areas of the country including Narsingdi, Mymensingh, Khulna, Dinajpur, Gazipur, Dhaka and Kishoreganj used to communicate with this circle.
It is known that the names of three more officials of the Technical Education Board have been found with the certificate fraud. They are Technical Education Board CBA Leader Abdul Bacher, Registration Branch Assistant Programmer Mamunur Rashid and Board Deputy Controller of Examination Zakaria Abbas. They used to talk to AKM Shamsuzzaman, the system analyst of the computer cell of the board, about changing the results of the students and creating fake certificates. According to their claims, AKM Shamsuzzaman used to produce certificates and change results. However, they did not pay any money to Shamsuzzaman. Being from the same board, Shamsuzzaman did not dare to ask them for money.
According to investigation sources, a case related to Shamsuzzaman’s certificate corruption was filed in ACC. An officer of the rank of Deputy Director of ACC called Shamsuzzaman to investigate the case. Since then, Shamsuzzaman tried to manage the ACC officer in different ways. But unable to manage that officer, another officer of the rank of Deputy Director of ACC was appointed.
That officer called Shamsuzzaman to his father’s house. The officer told Shamsuzzaman that the officer who is investigating the case cannot be managed. Therefore, the investigation officer of the case has to be changed, for which Shamsuzzaman has to pay 30 lakhs to this ACC officer. According to the official’s demand, Shamsuzzaman bought 30 lakh dollars and gave it to him. Later the investigating officer of the case was changed. It is also known that the new investigation officer is another officer of the rank of Deputy Director of ACC. He took more than 10 lakh rupees from Shamsuzzaman and acquitted him from the ACC case. According to DB sources, on remand, Shamsuzzaman told the DB officials that there are 500 technical education board certificate papers per bundle. Shamsuzzaman used to collect these bundled papers from the education board office. But he would have so much demand for fake certificates that the board office paper would not be enough. Puran of the capital contacted a press in Dhaka and Rangpur to maintain the supply of paper. After showing their original paper sample, they would make the exact certificate paper to Shamsuzzaman.
In the interrogation, Shamsuzzaman said that he learned the work of making certificates from 2014 to 2022. Mohammad Shamsul Alam learned of the fraud from a technical education board system analyst. Shamsul Alam used to forge diploma examination certificates several times. He also used to sell fake certificates to students. Shamsul used to increase the marks of the students who could not pass the diploma engineering exam. Learning from him, Shamsuzzaman used to make fake certificates of SSC and Diploma Engineering candidates and increase the marks obtained in the examination.
According to DB sources, the students used to contact the broker first. Later the brokers used to communicate with Shamsuzzaman. Later Shamsuzzaman used to make fake certificates accordingly. He used to take from 30 thousand to 50 thousand taka per fake certificate. Besides, the directors of various educational institutions also used to communicate with him. Although the directors paid 30-50 thousand rupees per certificate, they used to charge more money from the students. Shamsuzzaman has contact with about 30 brokers and directors. DMP Additional Commissioner of Police (DB) Haroon Or Rasheed said that Ali Akbar Khan, the former chairman of the Technical Education Board, has been made OSD. He was interrogated. Those involved in the incident are being listed. Those involved will be arrested soon.