Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is trying to restore its image by undertaking many plans to eliminate corruption from the society.
As part of the ACC’s plans, the commission warned its officials and employees against promoting the corrupt people and advised them to arrest the guilty and identify the corrupt institutions across the country.
The ACC sources said that after taking over the charge of ACC, new Chairman Iqbal Mahmud changed the scenario of the headquarters. The chairman along with the top officials of the commission has concentrated to restore internal discipline.
Iqbal Mahmud also asked the officials of the commission not to involve with any irregularities, but to give attention to their duties to make the commission strong. He also sent the same message to its offices outside the capital.
The ACC has been working to make people conscious about the corruption by organising many awareness programme across the country.
The ACC is determined to arrest the corrupt persons and to identify the corrupt institutions to eradicate corruption. The ACC has already started its drives to arrest the guilty all over the country for sending them to jail, Iqbal Mahmud said.
“The ACC filed 3,000 cases against many people and institutions. All the cases have strong merit and the commission found irregularities in its primary investigation. The officials of the commission have been working to prepare charge sheets against the alleged persons and institutions,” the ACC chairman said.
The chairman is also reluctant to label the commission as tiger without teeth saying that the commission is now tiger with teeth.
“There is no scope to call the ACC tiger without teeth. We have enough power to nab the culprit. Every corrupt person would be arrested and sent them to jail. The commission will try its level best to restore its image and eliminate the corruption,” the ACC chairman said it at a awareness programme at Satkhira Circuit House on April 16.
The ACC has started its mass drive from March 28 and the drives continue.
The ACC arrested eight more graft suspects, including an engineer of Dhaka WASA, from different parts of the country in separate graft cases on Wednesday.
An ACC team arrested former superintending engineer of Dhaka WASA AJM Robiul Kawsar from the capital in a graft case filed against him in 2014 for allegedly plundering about Tk 14 lakh from Dhaka WASA preparing fake documents, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The New Nation.
The others are former president of CGA Cooperatives and Auditor Rafiqul Islam, former office assistant of Ansar VDP Development Bank Delwar Hossain Shahin, Former Accountant of Progressive Life Insurance Raju Ahmed, accountant of Palli Bidyut Samity (Brahmanbaria) Al Mahmud, former Manager of Grameen Bank Babul Akhter, Nurul Amin fromTangail and Ashraful Rizvi from Dinajpur.
The ACC earlier filed a case against Auditor Rafiqul Islam for reportedly swindling out Tk 2.33 crore from the CGA Cooperatives.
As part of its countrywide drive, the national anti-graft body on Tuesday arrested 14 people in corruption cases filed against them. On April 18, the commission arrested eight persons, including a banker and two government officials, from different parts of the country on charge of fraudulence and misappropriation of money.
On April 13, six persons were arrested from Dhaka, Chittagong and Gaibandha district on charge of misappropriation of money from some government projects.
On March 28, it arrested four persons, including a BASIC Bank official, in connection with swindling out of huge money from the state-run bank.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is trying to restore its image by undertaking many plans to eliminate corruption from the society.
As part of the ACC’s plans, the commission warned its officials and employees against promoting the corrupt people and advised them to arrest the guilty and identify the corrupt institutions across the country.
The ACC sources said that after taking over the charge of ACC, new Chairman Iqbal Mahmud changed the scenario of the headquarters. The chairman along with the top officials of the commission has concentrated to restore internal discipline.
Iqbal Mahmud also asked the officials of the commission not to involve with any irregularities, but to give attention to their duties to make the commission strong. He also sent the same message to its offices outside the capital.
The ACC has been working to make people conscious about the corruption by organising many awareness programme across the country.
The ACC is determined to arrest the corrupt persons and to identify the corrupt institutions to eradicate corruption. The ACC has already started its drives to arrest the guilty all over the country for sending them to jail, Iqbal Mahmud said.
“The ACC filed 3,000 cases against many people and institutions. All the cases have strong merit and the commission found irregularities in its primary investigation. The officials of the commission have been working to prepare charge sheets against the alleged persons and institutions,” the ACC chairman said.
The chairman is also reluctant to label the commission as tiger without teeth saying that the commission is now tiger with teeth.
“There is no scope to call the ACC tiger without teeth. We have enough power to nab the culprit. Every corrupt person would be arrested and sent them to jail. The commission will try its level best to restore its image and eliminate the corruption,” the ACC chairman said it at a awareness programme at Satkhira Circuit House on April 16.
The ACC has started its mass drive from March 28 and the drives continue.
The ACC arrested eight more graft suspects, including an engineer of Dhaka WASA, from different parts of the country in separate graft cases on Wednesday.
An ACC team arrested former superintending engineer of Dhaka WASA AJM Robiul Kawsar from the capital in a graft case filed against him in 2014 for allegedly plundering about Tk 14 lakh from Dhaka WASA preparing fake documents, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The New Nation.
The others are former president of CGA Cooperatives and Auditor Rafiqul Islam, former office assistant of Ansar VDP Development Bank Delwar Hossain Shahin, Former Accountant of Progressive Life Insurance Raju Ahmed, accountant of Palli Bidyut Samity (Brahmanbaria) Al Mahmud, former Manager of Grameen Bank Babul Akhter, Nurul Amin fromTangail and Ashraful Rizvi from Dinajpur.
The ACC earlier filed a case against Auditor Rafiqul Islam for reportedly swindling out Tk 2.33 crore from the CGA Cooperatives.
As part of its countrywide drive, the national anti-graft body on Tuesday arrested 14 people in corruption cases filed against them. On April 18, the commission arrested eight persons, including a banker and two government officials, from different parts of the country on charge of fraudulence and misappropriation of money.
On April 13, six persons were arrested from Dhaka, Chittagong and Gaibandha district on charge of misappropriation of money from some government projects.
On March 28, it arrested four persons, including a BASIC Bank official, in connection with swindling out of huge money from the state-run bank.
