The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Home Advisor Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin Thursday said the National Coordination Committee he heads wouldn't move into further action against the corruption suspects and not publish any new list of the corrupt now.

Because, he told reporters, the Anti-Corruption Commission is overloaded with investigations and trial against those included on the previous lists.

"The Anti-Corruption Commission will not move into further action against the corruption suspects, but it will consider the matters of serious crime," he said at his Home Ministry office after a meeting of the taskforce, which is engaged in countrywide operation herding up the suspects for serious crime and corruption.

The chief of the National Coordination Committee (NCC) on Serious Crime and Corruption, now further armed with the policing powers, hoped that the NCC would finish all the cases that are now under trial during the tenure of the incumbent caretaker government.

He also requested the upcoming governments to carry on the crusade, waged in the interim period, against the vice of corruption.

"We are thinking about amending the existing laws so that the next governments can move against corruption," said the Advisor, indicating a new sociopolitical milieu being prepared so that the country doesn't have to revert to the pre-1/11 scenario.

Responding to a query about government move to free the detained teachers and students of Dhaka University, the Advisor for Home Affairs said the government needs some time for a better solution.

"We are thinking about a respectable solution for both the sidestGovernment and DU teachers and students."

The Advisor briefed the journalists about details of the cases under the National Coordination Committee. As per the NCC records, 19 persons were convicted under ACC move, 12 convicted under NBR and 14 under police proceedings.

Twenty-five investigated cases are now under trial at ACC initiative, 26 at NBR and 37 at police initiative. Some 68 investigations are in progress by ACC, 179 by NBR and 31 inquiries by ACC.