Thursday, April 9th, 2009The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has refused to appear before the parliamentary standing committee on public undertakings saying the summons is "beyond jurisdiction of the committee.""The committee has embarked on a motivated enquiry into the last two years' anti-corruption drive activities of the commission," said the ACC in a letter sent to the parliamentary committee yesterday."Such enquiry by summoning the commissioners in person does not fit in the prevailing legal and administrative norms and protocol," the letter read.Earlier, the parliamentary standing committee sent a letter to the commission on April 7 asking the acting ACC chairman and the commissioner to appear ...
(read more) Wednesday, April 8th, 2009No officials of the No officials of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), who were summoned by a parliamentary standing committee to appear, would appear before the committee.The ACC sent a letter to the parliamentary committee in reply to a letter summoning immediate past ACC chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury, its two commissioners and secretary to appear before the committee on April 12.The ACC officials were asked to appear with the annual report and the annual audit report of the commission.In reply, the ACC said it was an independent body and none of it was accountable to the committee.Parliamentary committee chief Mohiuddin Khan ...
(read more) Monday, June 23rd, 2008The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against detained former home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury in a case filed for amassing wealth illegally and giving false information in his wealth statement submitted to the commission.The same day, a Dhaka court rejected the bail petition of detained Sigma Huda in a case filed for taking Tk 6 lakh bribe.ACC Deputy Director Mohammad Moniruzzaman, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet against Altaf to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court showing 27 people as prosecution witnesses.In the charge sheet, the IO mentioned that the charges brought against the ...
(read more) Monday, April 28th, 2008A special court dealing with corruption cases yesterday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker Haji Mohammad Selim to 13 years imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally and concealing information in his wealth statement submitted to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).The court also sentenced Selim's wife Gulshan Ara to three years' imprisonment for abetting her husband and keeping the ill-gotten wealth in her possession.She was also fined Tk 1 lakh, in default of which she has to suffer six months more in prison.Judge Sirajul Islam of Special Judge's Court-7, set up on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises, also fined Selim Tk 10 lakh, in ...
(read more) Wednesday, February 27th, 2008"The all-powerful mother and son" are to be blamed for his present state and "inhuman life in prison", claimed Lutfozzaman Babar, detained former state minister for home affairs, during CID interrogation on Monday.Sidestepping his responsibility, Babar told the CID (Criminal Investigation Department) interrogators in a prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital that he had tried to do good things for the country, but he has become controversial due to the influence of former premier Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman.Khaleda and Tarique are responsible for his inhuman life in prison, he also said."I made ...
(read more) Saturday, January 19th, 2008The Anti-Corruption Commission's (ACC) drive against institutional corruption launched with much publicity at the end of last year has yet to gather pace.Manpower shortage and lack of expertise and skills to carry out effective investigations would make it hard for the ACC to get the long-awaited drive at full throttle, said ACC sources.Until the anti-graft body develops its own capacity and apparatus, it will have to depend on the findings of investigations by the taskforces under the National Coordination Committee to combat crime and corruption, they added.Meanwhile, an ACC official seeking anonymity said the commission is in fact doing ...
(read more) Thursday, December 20th, 2007The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed cases against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's nephew and a detained former state minister for amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and concealing information about it.The commission in the last couple of days also approved filing cases on the same charges against former state minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir's wife Sitara Alamgir, former superintendent of police Mojibul Haque, his wife Shahida Haque and son Shahidul Haque.Yesterday's cases were filed under sections 26 (2) and 27 (1) of the ACC Act and 15 d (5) of the emergency power rules.Assistant Director Taufiqul Islam filed the case ...
(read more) Tuesday, December 18th, 2007The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started collecting information regarding corruption in various service-oriented institutions.ACC Director General (administration) Col Hanif Iqbal during a routine press briefing at the ACC headquarters yesterday confirmed the ACC move taken as part of its drive to root out institutional corruption.Meanwhile, the ACC approved the filing of three cases against three people including one against former home minister Altaf Hossain Choudhury in connection with amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth information in the statement submitted to the commission.The drive is the first ever initiative by the anti-corruption body in combating institutional corruption."The ACC ...
(read more) Thursday, December 13th, 2007The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday pressed charges against Jatiya Party (Manju) Chairman Anwar Hossain Manju, his wife Tasmima Hossain and his cousin Mahmud Hossain in a case filed in connection with taking Tk 1 crore as bribe from a construction company.Meanwhile, the ACC filed a case against former BNP lawmaker Nadim Mostafa and his wife Nurunnahar Parul with Ramna Police Station in connection with concealing their wealth and amassing properties through illegal means.A Dhaka court yesterday sent former Awami League (AL) lawmaker Kazi Zafarullah, arrested under section 16(2) of the Emergency Power Rules (EPR), to jail after he was produced ...
(read more) Thursday, December 13th, 2007The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to initiate a primary inquiry into the wealth of former prime minister Khaleda Zia's younger brother and former BNP lawmaker Major (retd) Syed Iskander.According to sources, the commission has already appointed its Deputy Director Moniruzzaman Khan to conduct the inquiry against Iskander, also a BNP vice-chairman.At the onset of the Awami League government in 1996, now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption issued a notice to Iskander directing him to submit his wealth statement.Subsequently, the High Court, following a writ petition by Iskander challenging the legality of the notice, issued a stay order on the functioning of ...
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