Forged docs using Rajshahi mayor’s name used to swindle $78,893 from Korean company
Forged Rajshahi City Corporation documents -- with the name of Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton -- were used for signing a deal worth $10.12 million for procuring eight fire trucks from a South Korean company. The frauds used the name of the mayor and swindled $78,893 from the South Korean Shinshin Global Company Limited. Liton, also a presidium member of Awami League, disclosed the information this afternoon at a press conference at Rajshahi Nagar Bhaban auditorium. "We were completely unaware of the deal. We do not have the authority to sign such a deal with any foreign company," Liton said, adding that fire trucks were never essential for any city corporation in Bangladesh and there is a separate department for using these trucks. He said the city corporation lodged a general diary in this regard with Boalia Police Station and informed the cybercrime unit of Bangladesh Police and government high-ups. At the press conference, he gave details with documents in this connection, r