Dhaka: Former Chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury, and Partex Group Director Shawkat Aziz arrested in Dhaka in graft cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

ACC Public Relation Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattyacharya told NTV Online the Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and Shawkat Aziz were arrested in cases filed over plot swindle.

An ACC team, led by its director Syed Iqbal Hossain, arrested Iqbal Uddin in Dhaka’s Paribagh area and Shawkat Aziz from Gulshan area, said ACC spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya

On Wednesday, the national anti-graft agency filed a case with Motijheel Police Station against eight people, including Iqbal Uddin and Shawkat Aziz, for allegedly allocating two plots (10 katha each) of Rajuk violating rules.

The other accused in the case are former Rajuk members SD Foyez, AKM Wahidul Islam, SM Zafar Ullah, HM Jahirul Haque and Md Rezaul Karim Tarafder, and Ashfaq Aziz Rubel of Partex Group.

According to the case statement, the former Rajuk chairman and other accused in collusion with each other allocated two plots of Rajuk for Shawkat Aziz and Ashfaq Aziz during 2001-04, violating rules for their personal grain.