Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday interrogated two top officials of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited, including a former managing director, in connection with a graft case.

ACC deputy director Abdus Sobhan quizzed former managing director of the gas distribution company Sanwar Hossain and its general manger Chowdhury Hasan Habib from 10:30 am to 1 pm at the ACC head office in the capital, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.

On Jun 22, 2015, the national anti-graft body filed a case against five officials of Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited, including its two former managing directors, on graft charge. ACC deputy director Rytik Saha filed the case with Panchlaish Model Police Station in Chittagong.

The five officials are former managing directors Sanwar Hossain and Jamil Ahmed Alim, deputy general manager Amir Hamza and Abdullah Al Mamun and general manger Chowdhury Hasan Habib.

According to the first information report (FIR), all the accused in collusion with each other appointed 57 staff on ad-hoc basis in Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited without going for any circular in this regard.

They unofficially collected applications from job seekers for their personal gains. Later, 42 staff were regularised violating the Employees Regularisation Rules, 1994.

However, a two-member ACC team submitted its probe report before the Commission on May 21 recommending filing of a case against former Petrobangla Chairman Dr Hossain Mansur and others in this regard. But the ACC relived Dr Mansur of the graft allegation.