During the time of Abu Hena Md. Rahmatul Muneem, opportunistic and practically authoritarian officials created a reign of terror, using fear tactics for years. They were involved in irregularities in recruitment, transfer deals, promotion trades, and retirement benefits, among other areas.

Secretary Abu Hena Rahmatul Muneem pressured the approval of a project worth 900 crore taka for the Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL) without any verification. The order was given to a fake and unknown company. The company was presented as a large investor from the US energy sector, allowing it to participate in the tender. However, an investigation later revealed that no such company existed in the US. The company, named Technostim Energy, was connected to Rahmatul Muneem’s uncle, the former energy secretary. After this fraud was exposed, the syndicate, under Rahmatul Muneem’s pressure, also took away the bid bond of the company. The money was then shared among them.

Despite being involved in such serious fraud and bid bond theft, no action was taken against Rahmatul Muneem due to his close connections with former Minister Nasrul Hamid and the Prime Minister’s energy advisor, Towfiq-e-Elahi. Instead, Rahmatul Muneem was rewarded with the position of Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR). It is believed that through Rahmatul Muneem, Nasrul Hamid’s syndicate secured hundreds of crores of taka worth of energy sector projects.

During Rahmatul Muneem’s time, there was a corruption issue with purchasing software for the NSD-WIN project. The officials involved in corruption and looting during his leadership are still active today. Under the current Chairman Md. Abdur Rahman Khan, they are again involved in awarding a 212 crore taka hardware purchase tender to a particular company, accepting large bribes in return.