Corruption Practices at Carew & Co. (Bangladesh) Ltd.

It is open secret that corruption is abounding at Carew’s (Carew & Company Ltd., a public sector company of Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation) Ware Houses. But it is overlooked by the concerned authorities ever since. There are thirteen ware houses of Carew & Co. dispersed all over the country where the demand of country spirit or liquor is high.

For a long time, it’s a common practice there to mix water twice or thrice the quantity of country spirit and deliver to the consumers cheating the licensed buyers of the country making the related staff and officials ballooning their coffers with black money creating instability and inequality in the society.

So there are multiple impacts of the corruption practice. Firstly, they are cheating the licensed buyers, secondly, they are accumulating black money or illegal money, and thirdly, it is creating instability and inequality in the society.

Since the buyers of the product have to produce appropriate license issued from the Government of Bangladesh, their right to have quality product must be ensured. It is an irony that they are buying product from a government owned company but they are getting cheated with impure product and no one to see ever since!

Then the responsible staff of both Carew & Co. and the govt. staff at the Ware Houses are accumulating lots of money through this kind of cheating the buyers. They have been able to accumulate unusual amount of wealth if you could check their amount of wealth before posted to the Ware Houses. 

There is hard competition to get posted in the attractive places of Ware Houses; Dhaka, Chittagong and Srimongol are the most attractive places that the Agents are interested to be posted. Price of these attractive postings may be as high as several lakh taka. 

The astounding amount of wealth accumulated by the relevant staff, especially the agents of the company, creating commotion in the society. It is a discouragement to the hard working people of the country you may understand. They are creating unwanted situation in the society.

For example, we like to mention an Agent of Carew & Co. posted to Khulna Ware House and resides at Kushtia town. He has built a stunning 3-storied house at the heart of the town at PTI Road on around 1 bigha land. He works in a position below an entry level officer but he ride his own car and appointed a driver for the job. He owns a Rice Mill at Poradah, near Kushtia town, and a whole sale rice shop at the Chourhash more of the town. He is in the property buying spree now and want to accumulate as much wealth as possible before retiring in 2015 cheating the licensed consumers of a public sector industry.

If you check any of the 13 agents’ background you would find the same thing that their lifestyle is not commensurate to their legal income. 

So it is urgent in the interest of the consumers and the society to initiate tight grip on the corrupt practices, especially conducted by the Agents of Carew & Co. (Bangladesh) Ltd., Darsana, Chuadanga.