ACC arrest land owner for FR tower design forgery

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DHAKA, Aug 19, 2019 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today
arrested SMHI Faruque, the land owner of FR Tower, in a case filed over
forgery in the design of Banani’s high rise building that caught fire in
March this year.

A team led by Abu Bakar Siddique, deputy director (DD) of ACC, also the
plaintiff of the case, arrested Faruque from Gulshan-2 this noon, said ACC’s
public relations officer (PRO) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

The ACC arrested another owner Tasvir Ul Islam, also chairman of Quasem
Industries Ltd , from Segunbagicha area on Sunday.

The national anti-graft body filed two cases against 23 people for their
alleged involvement in illegally extending Banani’s FR Tower. The building
caught fire on March 27 this year which left 25 people dead.

The building owners had given permission for a 15-storey building but they
made the FR Tower a 23-storey one violating the permission.

The 23-storey FR Tower had no fire alarm while it has narrow exit points
and staircases and the fire exits are blocked, the ACC found during its
investigation.