The government has suspended two more National Board of Revenue (NBR) officials on allegations of breaching service rules, authorities said on Wednesday.
The two officials are Mokitul Hasan, second secretary of customs policy at the NBR, and M Zillur Rahman, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Cell.
According to the Internal Resources Division (IRD), Mokitul was suspended on allegations of breaching service discipline by disclosing highly confidential state documents.
The notification said that his actions violated the service conduct rules, prompting authorities to initiate departmental proceedings against him after a preliminary investigation.
The other official, Zillur Rahman, was suspended for tearing his transfer order in public.
According to a government notification issued on Wednesday, both have also been made officers on special duty.
As per government rules, Mokitul and Zillur have been temporarily suspended from their duties.
Earlier on Tuesday, another 14 officials of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) were suspended for “publicly tearing up” their transfer orders. IRD issued separate orders in this regard on Tuesday.
According to NBR sources, all of them were involved in the protests that rattled the revenue collecting agency last month.
The government on Wednesday formed a high-profile nine-member inter-ministerial committee to assess the financial losses suffered by the state due to the prolonged strike and work abstention by Customs, VAT and Tax department officials.
According to an official order, the committee will review both the revenue losses and the broader economic impact caused by disruptions in customs clearance, import-export activities and tax collection.