DHAKA, June 3, 2025 (BSS) – BanglaFact, fact-checking and media research wing of Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB), has debunked the false claim of a video on social media platform depicting recovery of 1200 bags of rice from the house of Adviser Asif Mahmud. 

Debunking the claim, BanglaFact's investigation report noted that the claim of recovering 1,200 backs of rice from the house of adviser Asif Mahmud Sajeeb Bhuiyan is fake, misleading and false.

According to the report, “a video has been shared on social media Facebook claiming that 1,200 sacks of rice were recovered from the house of adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan and that his father tried to manage the police by bribing them. BanglaFact has verified that the claim is not true.”

“In fact, the video is from the incident of recovering 16 sacks of rice from the house of a Union Parishad member in Shahrasti upazila of Chandpur,” report noted pointing the origin of the video.

BanglaFact search team said that the arrested in the incident, Humayun Kabir, is a member of ward No. 6 UP of Suchipara south union and former general secretary of Union Juba League.

Adviser Asif Mahmud also clarified this issue through a fakebook post.  

Expressing pain over the incident he, on his verified facebook page, wrote that the members of a banned organization have spread a video footage falsely linking him to an incident of Chandpur. Activists from different political parties recirculated the footage without crosschecking it.

Adviser’s father Mohammad Billal Hossen also clarified the issue to the media.” I’m not linked with any such case of annexation. A group of people doing these things for attaining their self-interests by staging such drama of stealing 1200 sacks of rice,” he said.