Staff Reporter :
Moinuddin Abdullah, the former Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry, has joined the Anti-Corruption Commission as new Chairman.
Meanwhile Md Jahurul Haque, former Chairman of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, is the new commissioner of the national anti-graft agency.
Upon arriving at the ACC headquarters in Dhaka’s Segunbagicha around 11:15 am, they were received by the commission’s Secretary Dr Md Anwar Hossain Howlader.
They were then taken to their offices afterwards on the fourth floor of the ACC building, an official told the media.
“The new chairman and commissioner of the anti-graft agency joined office on Wednesday,” ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said.
The government appointed Moinuddin and Jahurul Haque in the national anti-graft watchdog on March 3.
Moinuddin is replacing Iqbal Mahmud whose term will end on March 13, while the tenure of Commissioner (Investigation) AFM Aminul Islam also expires on the same day.
Another member of the commission, Md Mozammel Haque Khan, a former senior secretary of the Home Ministry, will stay in office until July 2023.
The law requires the government to choose the ACC chairman from a pool of three commissioners, each appointed for a term of five years. After retiring as the senior secretary of the agriculture ministry in August 2018, Moinuddin was appointed as the Managing Director of Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation or PKSF in July 2019.
Born in Cumilla in 1959, Moinuddin obtained his honours and master’s degrees from Dhaka University’s Department of Soil Science and joined public administration in 1983.
His long career as a public servant includes positions in the Ministry of Housing and Public Works and the Ministry of Industries and the Prime Minister’s Office.
