| An employee of Bangladesh’s biggest state-owned gas company who earned a mere $100 a month allegedly used his position to pocket a colossal $145 million in bribes over 12 years, an official said yesterday. Authorities here described the deception as one of the country’s biggest corruption scandals, with countless workers using the company to siphon millions out of public coffers. He identified the man as Abdul Kader Mollah, a former sales assistant with the Titas Gas Distribution Company. “As a low level employee, he was to supervise gas distribution in one of the country’s biggest industrial areas. And he made the money there,” a company spokesman said of Mollah. Mollah, who has not yet been arrested, insists he was only worth $66 million, and that he made the money through hard work, including setting up textile plants. |