Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate four directors of Abul Khair Group on December 21 and 24 next over the allegations of dodging tax and amassing illegal wealth.

The Commission served a notice asking them to turn up at the ACC headquarters to face the grilling, according to a copy of the notice obtained by UNB.

ACC Director Iqbal Hossain will interrogate the four directors of the business conglomerate.

Of them, Abul Kashem and Abul Hashem will face interrogation on December 21 while two other directors—Abu Syed Chowdhury and Shah Shafiqul Islam—will be grilled on December 24.

At a regular meeting on August 18 last, the national anti-graft body decided to initiate a probe against the directors of Abul Khair Group for allegedly dodging tax and amassing illegal wealth after receiving specific graft allegations, official sources said.

In July last, the ACC received several allegations against a number of sister concerns of Abul Khair Group that they in collusion with some officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) dodged a huge amount of tax and its owners accumulated huge illegal wealth.

ACC Director Syed Iqbal Hossain was appointed the inquiry officer to carry out the probe into the allegations while its Director General (Special Inquiry) will monitor the probe.