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Corruption

ACC to send list of 17 applicants to Tac

They include RHD ex-chief engineer, top forest official

STAFF Correspondent
regular press briefing yesterday
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has decided to send a list of 17 government officials to the Truth and Accountability Commission (Tac) following their applications to the ACC for confessing corruption voluntarily.
The civil servants include a divisional forest officer and a former chief engineer of the Roads and Highways Department (RHD).
Meanwhile, Tac Chairman Justice Habibur Rahman Khan at a
said 17 to 18 persons including politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen have so far contacted the Tac on their own directly saying they want to make voluntary disclosure of their corruption.
Sources in the ACC said all the persons who applied to the commission are government officials. Apart from the divisional forest officer and the former RHD chief engineer, six to seven of them are from Bangladesh Inland Water
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Transport Authority, a sub-registrar of the land ministry, several RHD officials and an official of Sylhet City Corporation.
Many of them have applied along with the names of their wives, the sources said.
"We have prepared a list of 17 applicants and will send it to the Truth and Accountability Commission tomorrow or day after tomorrow along with necessary papers required by sections 19 and 21 of the Voluntary Disclosure of Information Ordinance 2008," ACC Director General (Admin) Col Hanif Iqbal toldThe Daily Star.
"We will not prepare any list on our own unless people apply to us to appear before the Truth Commission," he added. He refused to. disclose any: detail., regarding die । identity or profession of the applicants.
ACC sources said those who applied to it are either accused in different corruption cases filed by the commission or have been served with notices to submit their wealth statements.
The ACC is preparing summary reports on the 17 applicants for sendingthosetotheTac.
The Tac chairman said, "As of today 17 to 18 persons in written statements have wanted to make voluntary disclosure of their corruption before the commission.
"These persons, however, have not yet taken the official forms to be filled in for the commission's consideration. We hope to begin the official procedure once they submit the forms," he told the press at a press briefing at theTac office.
After these persons submit the required forms to the Tac, the commission will dispose of the cases in a couple of weeks, Tac Chairman Justice Habibur Rahman Khan said.
He also refused to disclose the names, professional and political identities or nature of businesses of these persons.
Justice Habib once again said the Tac has been formed for the welfare of the people and the country, not to get certain persons acquitted of graft charges or humiliate anyone.
He said theTachopes togetlistsof absolution seekers both from the ACC and the National Coordination Committee to combat crime and corruption in a couple of days.
Replying to a question regarding the ongoing investigations against such persons, theTac chairman said, "Once a person appears before the commission for voluntary disclosure of their corruption, investigations conducted by other government agencies will be stopped."
He said they have decided to hold the hearings of absolution seekers in a normal environment. "We have decided not to bring such persons to the dock so that no one feels humiliated. We will not do anything that affects their image,” he said.
TheTac is different from the court in that it has nothing to do with punishing the corrupt and that it will help secure the image of those who want to confess their corruption voluntarily, he added.
"The matter of making voluntary disclosure will, however, be officially informed to the departments of the absolution seekers," Justice Habib said.
"Just wait for a few days...We hope a large number of people will come to make voluntary disclosure about their corruption," he said, adding that a considerable number of people are already contacting the commission every day to leam about the rules and regulations of the commission.
The Tac began functioning on August 3 with a five-month tenure and has set September 1 as the deadline for seekineabsnltirinn