The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday caught a high official of the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) red-handed while taking bribe from a company in Dinajpur.
The detainee is Mostafizur Rahman, deputy inspector general of the DIFE Dinajpur region.
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Deputy Director of ACC Public Relations Office Muhammad Arif Sadeq told UNB that Mostafizur demanded Tk 80,000 as bribe from Ishan Agro Food of the district for the renewal of its license.
Being informed through ACC hotline 106, a team of the anti-graft body, led by Mohammad Moazzem Hossain and Ahsanul Kabir Palash, deputy directors, ACC, Dinajpur, caught him red-handed at noon while taking the bribe at his office, added Arif Sadeq.