Gazipur City Corporation (Template:Lang-bn - in short: GCC) established in 2013, is one of the city corporations of Bangladesh. Gazipur City Corporation's total area is 329.23 square kilometers with approximately has the population of 4,000,000 people in the city corporation area.[1] As of 2018, Gazipur City Corporation had 1.1 million voters.[2]
In May 2019 at a press briefing, the acting mayor Jahangir Alam revealed that 14 employees of Gazipur City Corporation got show cause notice over corruption and irregularity charges.[3] In July same year in another press briefing, mayor Jahangir said that among the 14 accused employees, 6 had been suspended, 3 had been temporarily suspended and the remaining 5 had been served show-cause notices for alleged corruption.[4]
On May 11, 2020 Delwoar Hossain, the executive engineer of Gazipur City Corporation was murdered allegedly by his colleague. The investigation agency and Delwoar's family suspects that the motive behind Delwoar's murder was corruption.[5]
Police has arrested Anisur Rahman Selim, an assistant engineer of Gazipur City Corporation as a suspect of the murder case. Mayor Jahangir Alam told the Prothom Alo that he knew about the corruption of Selim but never took any measures against him.[6]
