Sengupta telecoms shows up [Suronjit has fallen into another trap]

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

Friday, April 13, 2012
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Sengupta telecoms shows up
Regulator gives Suranjit's son lucrative interconnections licence

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=230104

Sajjadur Rahman and Abdullah Mamun

Rail Minister Suranjit Sengupta's son Soumen Sengupta was awarded a Tk 5-crore telecommunication gateway licence yesterday, just two days after the Railwaygate scandal involving the minister's close aide and other railway officials.

Soumen, who worked at internet service provider Agni Systems Ltd six months ago, had to pay the telecom regulator Tk 5 crore in licence fees. The amount was paid between March 2 and April 2.

Prior to his joining at Agni Systems, Soumen worked for Nextgen Networks, an IT firm, from March 2010 to May 2011, according to his profile on social networking site LinkedIn.

“He [Soumen] withdrew around Tk 50,000 in salaries a month from Agni Systems,” a director of the firm told The Daily Star, wishing anonymity.

According to Suranjit's wealth statement submitted to the Election Commission before the 2008 election, his annual income amounted to Tk 7 lakh, whose sources were house rent, fisheries and farm land.

Suranjit became railway minister in December last year. Before that he was the chief of the parliamentary standing committee on law, justice and parliamentary affairs ministry.

A seven-time parliamentarian, he is currently under fire following the recovery of Tk 70 lakh from the microbus of his Assistant Personal Secretary Omar Faruq Talukder on Monday night.

BGB members seized the money and detained Faruq, his driver Ali Azam, Railway General Manager (East) Yusuf Ali Mridha and railway's security officer Enamul Huq after the driver drove the microbus into BGB's Pilkhana headquarters in the capital, shouting there was stashes of illegal money in the vehicle.

Suranjit came to the limelight again yesterday after Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) awarded his son's company, Sengupta Telecommunication Limited, an interconnection exchange (ICX) licence.

BTRC Chairman Zia Ahmed said Soumen himself collected the licence and that all the procedures were followed in the process.

Of the 22 licences awarded, 21 were handed over yesterday, he added.

A telecom expert said setting up the company would require an investment of Tk 30 crore at least.

The Daily Star could not reach Soumen for comments.

 

[idune]

^^^^
I am archiving this news and you know where

 

[boltu]

Wow used to think this Sengupta may be a good guy but came out to be another corruption infected guy with loads of big fat words inside his big mouth

 

[CaPtAiN_pLaNeT]

According to the weekly blitz Suronjit's son is planning to invest 300 million taka into the company to set up the telecom equipments.

Slap on the ugly face of corrupt Suranjit :: Weekly Blitz

"It is important to mention here that Soumen Sen Gupta not only invested TK 50 million as license fees but will now also invest an additional amount of TK 300 millions for setting the telecom company. Of course, his only source of such huge funds are his father's income through bribes."

 

[idune]

So weekly Blitz had been telling truth about these Awami corruption, after all. But offcourse awami big mouths here will come up with "its propaganda" line.....

 

[idune]

Political insiders of ruling Bangladesh Awami League as well as inner-circles of Suranjit with confidence are saying that the newly appointed railway minister was never a clean man during his entire political career, while after getting the position of the railway minister, it has possibly become the 'right time' for him to fulfil his long-cherished dream of cashing billions of Taka while building a 'second home' both in India and United States using the name of his only son Souman Sen Gupta.

Suranjit Sen Gupta's diplomatic drive of salvation:

Soon after the case of bribery went into the attention of Bangladeshi media as well as the Railwaygate Scandal turned into a huge issue of humiliation for the ruling partyt, shrewd Suranjit contacted a top-ranking diplomat of a neighboring nation seeking his 'urgent initiative' in 'saving' his 'political image'. Later Suranjit also made a number of calls to some influential politicians in India, including Pranab Mukherjee with the appeal of 'doing something urgently' to salvage him from being politically doomed. Though Pranab Mukherjee refused to receive Suranjit's phone call, few other Indian politicians as well as the top diplomat of the neighboring nation phone some of the members of the Special Family in Bangladesh with strong request of 'helping Suranjit' in 'overcoming the crisis'.

Suranjit Sen Gupta is stealing money from Bangladeshis and storing it in India; that goes to show real motive of his kind.