The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

The Anti-Corruption Comm-ission is going to file cases against five corrupt suspects, including former minister and Awami League leader Engineer Mosharraf Hossain, Swechhasebak League president Bahauddin Nasim mostly for acquiring wealth beyond their known sources of income.

"The Commission has decided to file first information reports (FIRs) against five suspected corrupts," ACC director general (admin) Col Hanif Iqbal, also the Commission's spokesperson, said this during the Commission's regular briefing this (Monday) afternoon. Apart from Mosharraf and Bahauddin, the three other corrupt suspects going to be sued are AL's Dhaka City unit general secretary Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya's son Dipu Chowdhury, former BNP minister Shajahan Siraj's son Rajib Siraj and forest official Ashit Ranjan Pal. "Of them (five corrupt suspects), a non-submission case will be filed against Dipu Chowdhury as he failed to submit his wealth statement to the Commission in due time," Hanif said.

He also said the ACC is well aware about those cheating people identifying themselves as its officials.

Replying to a question about corruption by the Commission's field-level officials, Hanif said no official could take any decision on his or her own, as all the decisions are taken by the Commission. In this regard, he said the Commission has already published leaflets to make people aware. From the leaflets, people will be able to know how to inform the Commission about cheating in the names of ACC employees, he added.

Replying to a question about the complaints already submitted to the Commission, the director general said majority of the complaints have been proved false and motivated. "The Commission inquires a complaint based on its merit and acceptability. The complaints that have appeared acceptable to the Commission are now under inquiry after scrutiny."

On alleged financial irregularities by some NGOs, he said, "This matter didn't come to my notice. The Commission will inform about it in the next regular briefing (Thursday)."