The Matarbari Ultra Super Critical Coal-Fired Power Plant has turned into a haven for corruption for the officials of state-owned Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL) who indulged in widespread anomalies in tenders and procurements.
Project officials alleged that a nexus of the top brass at CPGCBL has planned to embezzle Tk50 billion in the name of importing coal for the power plant in three years.
Besides, there were anomalies of Tk17.7 billion in different forms during the last 15 years of the ousted Awami League regime.
Meanwhile, members of Bangladesh Navy arrested seven people while smuggling electric cables worth about Tk150 million from the Matarbari power plant early Sunday.
Law enforcers also arrested CPGCBL Managing Director Abul Kalam Azad at the Dhaka airport on Sunday while trying to flee the country.
Besides, an international consortium on 29 August sent a letter to Power Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan about irregularities and corruption of dishonest officials of the CGPCBL.
