Staff Reporter :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) rejected the study report prepared by the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), a Berlin-based anti-graft watchdog, which ranked Bangladesh 14th in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)-2014. The ACC in its reaction at the National Press Club on Wednesday discarding the statements said that the TI depended mostly on guess and conjecture only. Commissioner M Shahabuddin Chuppu said, the report is not acceptable. “The statistics shown by the TI are totally different from the reality. It is baseless. ACC does not agree with it,” he said. “We have not yet obtained a copy of the survey report in our hand. Even if we get, I think that it will not be acceptable to the Commission”, he said. About TIB’s arguments that political and administrative influences on ACC are mostly responsible for the worrying situation, the Commissioner said, it is totally false.It was not true that the Commission had released ruling men from corruption allegations. “We do not indulge in any corruption”, Shahabuddin Chuppu said.About the TIB’s statement that attempts to curtail the ACC’s power in dealing with the corrupts contributed to the sorry state, Shahabuddin Chuppu said that the Commission always take all the decisions as per its findings.”Our findings are based on facts. “We take our decisions as per available evidences. So, it is not correct to blame ACC’s for rise in corruption”, he said. Commissioner Shahabuddin said the anti-graft commission was more proactive than ever before. “That is why corruption has come down in Bangladesh”.Even after that, the Commission will scrutinize the report, he said.
