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) Friday, June 13th, 2008Reiterating her wish to stay in the country, detained BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday asked the government to send her two detained sons abroad for treatment without delay.Speaking to reporters after hearing proceedings in Niko graft case, she said, “I have told you before that I'm not going anywhere. I have been in the country and will continue to be here. The condition of my sons however is very bad, and I ask the government to send them abroad without wasting time.”Khaleda, also former prime minister, was produced before the Special Court-9 on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises at 10:10am ...
(read more) Tuesday, May 20th, 2008Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami, who enjoyed leniency of the past governments, is now at an isolated cell of Dhaka Central Jail thanks to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) implicating him in the Gatco graft case that eventually led to his arrest on Sunday night.Although there is enough evidence of his involvement in atrocities during the Liberation War in 1971, he and other local collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces managed to evade arrest.Chief of Al-Badr, a force formed with local collaborators of the Pakistani invading army to eliminate intellectuals of Bangladesh, Nizami also got off scot-free even after dozens of ...
(read more) Tuesday, April 29th, 2008A special court yesterday sentenced former BNP lawmaker Helaluzzaman Talukdar Lalu to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment for amassing over Tk 1.75 crore worth of wealth illegally and concealing wealth information to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).Judge Anowar Hossain of the Special Judge's Court, Bogra also handed down a three-year prison term to his wife Shamsun Nahar Zaman for the same offences.The court also fined the Lalu couple and ordered to confiscate their wealth.The couple was fined a total of Tk 11 lakh -- Lalu Tk 10 lakh and his wife Tk 1 lakh. In default of the fines, Lalu will ...
(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) Thursday, March 6th, 2008The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will question former premier and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia today in connection with the Niko graft case filed against her and four others by the commission."The ACC will interrogate Khaleda Zia at sub-jail between 2:00pm and 3:00pm," DIG(Prisons) Maj Shamsul Haider Siddiqui told The Daily Star last night.Yesterday, the ACC quizzed former energy secretary Khandaker Shahidul Islam, one of the accused in the case, at its headquarters. A taskforce team along with investigation officer of the case SM Shahidur Rahman questioned the former secretary.Meanwhile, a Dhaka court yesterday allowed a lawyer to meet Khaleda ...
(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) 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 ...
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