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ACC against money whitening measures in budget

Juutkar Au Manik
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will ask die government not to keep any provisions in the upcoming national budget for whitening black money, as die commission believes such provisions benefit corrupt people.
The ACC will write to Finance Minister M Saifur Ralunan in this regard, coi mission sources said yesterday after a meeting dial took the decision.
" AC(S believes there is huge black money in the country. The opportunities offered by die government to whiten this money arc encouraging corruption and discouraging genuine taxpayers," an ACC official said.
He said ACC's andcorruption drive would not succeed if die government continues to offer such opportunities dial also contradict die law of die land.
By giving the comipt people an opportunity to claim themselves to be clean, the government is actually violating the Anti-Corruption Commission Act that empowers the commission to take action against them, he observed.
The government’s lax system in the poor. The unlimited expenditure of black money owners leads to higher import and increase of commodity prices."
"On the other hand, honest tax payers are undermined and discouraged when black money owners are given such incentives," he added.
Earlier, between 1997 and 1999, a similar system encouraged black money holders to whiten their cash. At that time, about Tk 1,000 crore was whitened. The NBR collected Tk 100 crore in taxes against that whitened money.
INVESTIGATION AGAINST EX-AL MINISTERS
The ACC meeting also decided to launch investigations against several former Awami League (AL) ministers and high officials accused of corruption during the AL regime.
The now-defunct Bureau of AntiCorruption (Bac) compiled a number of allegations against these ministers and officials. But no investigation took place. Yesterday's meeting approved investigation into some of these allegations but the ACC remains tight-lipped about the names of the ex-ministers.
ACC Secretary M Ataur Rahman without naming the ex-ministers and officials said they would investigate allegations against 10 to 12 government high-ups.
ORGANOGRAM
Meanwhile, the establishment ministry has sent back a proposal on ACC organogram with a note that the proposal was incomplete. The ACC submitted this organogram for the ministry's approval last month.
The ministry suggested incorporating job descriptions of the staff proposed in the organogram before submitting it again.
The ACC has started screening of ex-Bac officials to recruit them as per guidelines finalised last month. It also sought the law ministry's opinion about the guidelines it has prepared. The ministry is yet to give its opinion.