Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested thirteen people including engineer Md Masudul Alam, the then in-charge of Green City Housing Project under the power plant, for their involvement in pillow purchasing scam of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna.

A team of anti-graft body arrested the accused on Thursday afternoon.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood disclosed the information at a press briefing at its Segunbagicha Headquarters in Dhaka.

According to reports of the mass as well as the social media, the purchase prices of various items to furnish the project’s 966 flats for the Russian engineers and others were abnormally higher than the market prices.

The reports claimed that each pillow was bought for Tk 5,957 and the cost of carrying it to a flat was Tk 760. An electric stove cost Tk 7,747 and the carrying cost from the ground floor to the top one cost Tk 6,650.

The reports also said the price of an electric iron was Tk 4,154 and the carrying cost Tk 2,945.