Eight more government servicemen, including two Titas Gas officials and an executive engineer of Bangladesh Inland Water Transportation Authority (BIWTA), yesterday confessed to having ill-gotten wealth worth Tk 2.57 crore before the Truth and Accountability Commission (Tac).
With their disclosure, 31 persons have so far disclosed information about their ill-gotten wealth before the Tac. Except for a textile businessman, all of them are government officials.
The five other government officials who confessed their illegal wealth yesterday are two district registrars and three sub-registrars.
Narayanganj Sub-Registrar Mujibur Rahman confessed to having illegal wealth worth Tk 1 crore while BIWTA Executive Engineer Saiful Islam disclosed information about illegal wealth worth Tk 1.17 crore.
Meanwhile, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday sent another list of seven corruption suspects, including a Roads and Highways Department engineer, following their applications to face the Tac.
Besides, a three-member ACC delegation led by its Chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury yesterday handed over the first annual report of the commission to President Iajuddin Ahmed at his office.
The names of other persons included in the ACC list are a union parishad chairman, wives of two government officials and four Water Development Board officials.
The president’s press secretary confirmed The Daily Star about handing over of the report. He said although the annual report is supposed to be submitted every year, this was the first time the ACC submitted it.
The 150-page report written both in English and Bangla contains ACC activities during February 2007 and June 2008.
ACC sources said the report also describes the challenges the commission faced during the time. It also presents some recommendations.
The other members of the delegation were ACC commissioners Habibur Rahman and Abul Hasan Manzur Mannan.
ACC sources also said its chairman would be visiting Norway from September 9 to 18 to attend an international seminar on corruption.
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