The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has detected irregularities in the payroll of Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, a state-owned entity under Petrobangla. ACC officials revealed the information after a raid on the gas fields’ administrative office on Thursday afternoon. ACC officials found discrepancies involving 27 additional employees listed on the payroll. While only 195 officials and employees are actively working, the payroll shows 222 employees.  The ACC team, led by Assistant Directors Ashraf Uddin and Jewel Majumdar from the Sylhet regional office, also found evidence of overtime payments exceeding salary allocations, which lacked proper documentation.  Sugarcane threshing to begin at Drashana's Carew & Co sugar mill on Friday During the five-month period from July to November, employees of the gas field received salaries amounting to Tk 2.35 crore. However, overtime payments about Tk 2.86 crore were disbursed. Assistant Director Ashraf Uddin said, “The documents have been collected and will be forwarded to the commission for further review. Errors in salary and overtime calculations have been identified.”  Managing Director of the gas field Rezaul Islam said that an investigation will also be conducted on behalf of the gas field in this regard.

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) have started extracting gas from a new part of the Haripur gas field located in Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet.