The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Dhaka

Communications Adviser Maj Gen (Retd) M A Matin yesterday said the government would expedite the anti- corruption drive in the coming days conducting it more effectively.

"The taskforce is fully aware of how to deal with anti- corruption cases correctly and speedily," the adviser told a press briefing at his Secretariat office here.

Matin, also chairman of the national coordination committee (NCC) on serious crimes control drive, said conducting anti-graft cases would be easier for the taskforce members in future as they earned good experience dealing with such cases in the last nine months.

The adviser informed that 44 out of 573 anti-corruption cases have so far been disposed of and the remaining cases are at different stages.

The taskforce is consulting senior lawyers and former judges before filing the FIRs and submitting charge sheets of the cases, he said.

Replying to a question, Matin said a total of 62 anti- corruption taskforces are working across the country and their number might be increased to strengthen the anti-graft drive.

Anti-corruption drive is a continuous process, he said and asserted that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and Taskforce would go ahead with the drive more efficiently.