Updated on Thursday, July 02, 2009, 20:58 IST

Dhaka, July 02: Bangladesh's parliament may ask its former speaker and two top BNP leaders, found guilty of 'embezzlement' of USD 285,000 by a parliamentary probe body, to return the amount.

Former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, his deputy in the last House Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and ex-parliamentary chief whip Khandker Delwar Hossain drew Taka 17.1 million as medical allowances and additional fuel allowances 'ignoring the law', the all-party committee said.

In a set of recommendations in the report, the probe panel will ask the House to recover the money from Sircar, Akhtar and Hossain and file criminal cases in this connection against them if they fail to return the money, a member of the committee was quoted as saying by The Daily Star.

The three boycotted the summons issued by the committee that will submit its report to the House next Tuesday, the paper reported.

"We decided to place the probe report in parliament on July 7. We want to read out the findings of our investigation in the House so that people can know what happened in the parliament secretariat in the past," Shajahan Khan, a member of the probe body, told The Daily Star.

Committee sources said the parliamentary body, probing alleged corruption in Parliament Secretariat in the last seven years, also decided to consult Speaker Abdul Hamid and Leader of the House Sheikh Hasina about how the probe finds would be disclosed in the House.

Bureau Report