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ACC submits final reports on 263 graft cases so far

UNB, Dhaka
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has submitted final reports on 263 graft cases involving 439 individuals in the last 14 months as the allegations against them could not be substantiated.
Official sources said the anti-graft watchdog submitted die final reports on the cases from January 1, 2008 to February 28 this year, letting 439 accused get off the hook.
Those came out clean include incumbent and former ministers and lawmakers representing major parties, local government representatives, government officials and employees and individuals belonging to other professions.
They were accused of misappropriation of money, relief materials (rice, wheat, CI sheet, etc) and ■ government and private properties, causing losses to the national exchequer, abuse of power,
cheating, tax evasion, fraudulence, acquiring illegal wealth, concealment of information and money laundering.
The anti-graft officials said most of these cases were filed by the police that were later forwarded to the ACC, because the offences fell under its schedule. Of the 263 cases, final reports on 208 graft cases involving 340 accused were submitted in 2008.
Among the accused, 15 were former ministers and lawmakers of different parties, 66 chairmen and members of municipalities and union parishads (UPs), 66 government officials and employees and 188 belonging to other professions.
Of the 15 ex-ministers and lawmakers, Matia Chowdhury is now a minister, while Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir is a lawmaker. They were not holding their current positions when the final reports on their cases were submitted.
Another 13 former ministers and MPs are: Tariqul Islam, barrister Aminul Haque, Prof MA Mannan, Asadul Habib Dulu, Salman F Rahman, Abdus Sobhan, Gazi Nazrul Islam, Shah Abu Zafar, Abdullah Abu Taher, M Giasuddin, Fazlul Haque Milon, Abul Hashem and AKM Selim Reza.
Chittagong City Corporation Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury was also one of the 340 accused who was later cleared.
Of 208 cases, some 75 were filed for allegations of misappropriating corrugated iron (CI) sheets, foods, money, VGF, OMS and TR items -- all meant for relief — 43 for bribery, 60 for misappropriating govern-ment/private properties through fraudulence, 23 for causing losses to the exchequer through abuse of power, cheating and tax evasion, four for acquiring illegal wealth and three for money laundering.
In January 2009, the anticorruption watchdog submit-
ted its final reports on 32 graft cases against 63 individuals, as the allegations could not be proved.
Among die accused against whom allegations could not be substantiated, one was former BNP lawmaker Nasir Uddin Ahmed Pintu, eight were chairmen and members of municipalities and UPs, 12 former and serving government officials and employees and 42 belonging to other professions.
The final reports on 23 graft cases involving 36 individuals were submitted in February. Incumbent Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain and serving Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi are among the 36 accused get off the hook.
Apart from Hossain and Bodi, other individuals implicated in these 23 cases were government! employees and officials, locaL government representatives, insurance officials and other professionals.