The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

In apparent contradiction to a remark of Home Affairs Adviser Maj Gen (retd) MA Matin, the Anti-Corruption Commission has said the activities of the Commission would continue based on its own inquiries.

"The functions of the Commission will continue in future based on its own inquiry," ACC director general (admin) Col Hanif Iqbal, also the Commission's spokesman, said during the regular briefing Thursday afternoon.

Asked if any list of corrupt suspects has come to the Commission from the National Coordination Committee (NCC), he said: "It's not a matter for consideration… the Commission is not aware of it."

Earlier, in the morning, Home Adviser Matin, also NCC chairman, said at the ministry that the Anti-Corruption Commission would not move into further action against the corruption suspects, but it would consider the matters of serious crimes.

He said the Commission would take decision about the reinstatement of 263 officials of then Anti-Corruption Bureau, who filed a case against the ACC to reinstate them, in the first week of the coming month after a meeting with the ACC chairman.

Meanwhile, responding to the ACC notice, former director general (LPR) of Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute Kazi Mohammad Imdadul Haq submitted his wealth statement to the Commission today showing total assets worth Tk 6,523,000.

In the wealth statement, he mentioned that among the assets, he has lands at Savar worth Tk 70,000 and in Bogra worth Tk 400,000, and also a plot at Uttara in the capital worth Tk 320,000. Haq's wife has a flat at Lalmatia in the city worth Tk 2,738,000.

The ACC also approved submission of charge sheet against former BNP lawmaker and BRTC chairman Taimur Alam Khandoker in two cases filed against him with Paltan police station on August 14 last year.

Besides, the ACC sent notice to Nurul Amin Talukder, assistant engineer of the National Sports Council, asking him to submit wealth statement to the Commission.