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Anti-Corruption-Commision raided Sadiq agro firm,while seven brahman calves and five brahman cows were inseminated last month, reported on Monday (01 July).
A nine-member of team, headed by the graft body's Assistant Director Abul Kalam Azad, led a drive at the farm located in Savar.
After the operation, the ACC assistant director told reporters, "Seven Brahman calves of 7-10 months of age were found [listed at the farm]. Their sale or transfer has been prohibited.
"We have seized the farm's sperm account and butcher's account. We found that five Brahman cows have been inseminated in the last month."
The Brahman cattle, however, have been banned since 2016.
Back then, the government stopped the production and import of Brahman cattle, import of semen of Brahman bulls and its artificial insemination.
Rony, who works at Sadeeq Agro, denied the ACC's claims stating that there are no Brahman cows in the farm."Sadeeq Agro used to have genuine Brahman breed. I was raising those as well. But that was before. Now they're all gone."
Sadeeq Agro's Mohammadpur farm was completely demolished on 29 June for illegally occupying the Ramchandrapur canal and adjacent roads.
The farm, recently implicated in the so-called "goat scandal", had encroached upon the canal site for years and the silence of city authorities on this matter all these years raised various questions.
Earlier on the day, while raiding the government-owned Central Cattle Breeding and Dairy Farm in Savar, the ACC officials questioned the farm's Director Md Monirul Islam.
Based on the information received from there, the ACC team then raided the Savar farm of Sadeeq Agro.
Monirul left his office immediately after the ACC's interrogation. Several journalists tried to talk to him but he did not respond. Later, he was called and messaged again on his number but till now no statement was received from him.
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