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Download PDF British Metropolitan Police Service Scotland Yard is helping Bangladesh government and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in bringing back the siphoned off money to the country, outgoing British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury said yesterday.
“Wherever there is corruption, we will stand and help people to fight that issue,” he told the press after a farewell visit to the ACC chairman and commissioners yesterday.
“Therefore, it is very natural for us to cooperate with Bangladesh government and the Anti-Corruption Commission…Scotland Yard is cooperating with the Anti-Corruption Commission on these cases,” he said.
Replying to a question regarding the cooperation from Scotland Yard, Choudhury said, “They are cooperating so that the money can be returned to Bangladesh. They are working official-to-official level.”
He said, “We are cooperating in terms of policy. The UK government has stated that we will fight corruption throughout the world that includes our own country.”
Replying to another question on human rights, he said there must be transparency when people are being arrested and charged.
“There must be due process and transparency in the case,” he said, adding that the prosecution must be without difference and discrimination.
Praising ACC activities, Choudhury said the ACC is certainly very different from the one that existed before and seems to be very dynamic.
Referring to the transformation of the ACC, the British high commissioner said the DFID provided money for the transformation.
Anwar Chowdhury will leave Dhaka soon after completion of his four-year term in Dhaka.
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