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Customs official suspended over graft allegation
The government has suspended a Customs official after her arrest by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in Jashore earlier this month.
According to a notification issued by the Internal Resources Division (IRD) under the Ministry of Finance, Shamima Akter, Revenue Officer at Benapole Customs House, was arrested on October 7, 2025 by the ACC’s Integrated District Office in Jashore.
Invoking Section 39(2) of the Government Servants Act, 2018, the government deemed it appropriate to place her under suspension from the date of her arrest.
During the suspension period, she will be entitled to subsistence allowance as per existing rules, the order stated.
The IRD said the order was issued in the public interest.
The ACC arrested the customs officer from Belapole land border on bribery charges along with a NGO worker suspecting him to be her accomplice.
ACC Director General Akhtar Hossain had said the graft body personnel arrested Shamima Akter from western Jashore on charges of routinely taking bribes from clearing and forwarding (C&F) agents at the western land border port with India.
The ACC team earlier arrested NGO worker Hasibur Rahman from Benapole Custom House complex adding he used to collect bribes on Akter’s behalf.
The ACC officials said Akter was arrested a day after the NGO worker’s arrest with Tk.2.76 lakh.
A case was filed against them under sections 161, 162, 163, 164, 165A and 109 of the Penal Code and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947, reports UNB.