The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved four charge sheets to be submitted against five people including former housing and public works minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and Orion Group Chairman Obaid ul Karim.
This was stated by ACC Director General (admin) Col Hanif Iqbal at a routine press briefing in the city yesterday.
He said the ACC has also decided to hold view exchange meetings with heads of different ministries and the institutes under them to curb institutional corruption.
The ACC has also sent a letter to the cabinet ministry to know how to dispose of 12 lakh wealth statements submitted by government servicemen following a governmentdecision, he added.
Charge Sheet
Engr Mosharraf will be charged with concealing information about his wealth statement submitted earlier to the commission and amassing wealth beyond his known sources of income totaling aboutTk2.29 crore.
The ACC filed the case with Ramna Police Station on November 11,2007, he added.
In another charge sheet, Obaidul Karim and Sayedul Haque, former lawmaker from Brahmanbaria, will be charged with causing a loss of Tk 84.55 lakh to state exchequer.
According to the charge sheet the accused imported duty-free car and caused the loss to the state by selling the cars.
Rafiqul Anwar, a former lawmaker of Chittagong, will be charged with concealing information about his wealth worth Tk 50.98 lakh in the wealth statement submitted earlier to the commission and for amassing wealth worth Tk 2.09 lakh beyond bis known sources pf income.
Shuvadda UP Chairman Nazim Uddin will be charged with concealing information about his wealth worth Tk 7.01 crore in the wealth statement submitted earlier to the commission and for amassing wealth worth Tk 14.26 crore beyond known sources of income.
Institutional Corruption
The ACC has sent letter to cabinet secretary informing about its decision and with the request to give necessary directives to different ministries to help hold the view exchange meeting, he added.
In the first phase they expect to hold the view exchange meetings
with land, health, communications and local government ministries in October and November
"Only the government officials can say it for sure how corruption infect government offices and how it spreads through. The government servants can also inform ACC if there is any weakness in the legal structure of a ministry," said Col Hanif.
"It would not be possible to make drive against institutional corruption a success unless the government officials participate directly in the drive and assist to resist corruption in government offices," he added.
He said such meeting would establish a contact with government servicemen against corruption and thus facilitate the drive against institutional corruption.
Senior assistant secretaries of the ministries concerned and toplevel officials of the institutes would be requested to attend the meeting, he added.
Wealth Statement of Government Servicemen
The ACC has also sent letters to respective ministries to prepare a database containing wealth statement submitted by its officials while the commission also recommended cabinet ministry to sort out a way for involving concerned ministry and directorate to dispose of own cases regarding wealth statement submitted by their officials.
"The number of wealth statement submitted is huge and it would be time consuming. We wanted to know from cabinet ministry how to deal with the huge task, "he added.
The commission has also decided that all the investigations against corruption-suspects facing Tac through ACC will remain closed and the next course of action in this regard will depend on the decision ofTac.