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2 fake freedom fighters at ACC

Finds anti-graft body probe

M Rahman
Two directors of the Anti-Corruption Commission resorted to cheating to obtain freedom fighters' certificate to defer their retirement by a year.
The anti-graft body found this while investigating its nine officials, including a director general, who have war hero's certificates.
The probe was launched on November 2 in the wake of government and media reports that some top bureaucrats fraudulently secured freedom fighter's certificates.
The ACC has completed investigating its Director Golam Yahiya while the probe into the eight others is on, said its Director General Mohammad Shahiduzzaman.
In the report submitted to the commission late last month, the probe committee recommended that the government revoke Yahiya's certificate and drop his name from the gazette.
When Yahiya joined the ACC, he declared that he was not a freedom fighter. But later he secured the certificate without maintaining proper procedures, said the DG, declining to elaborate.
To evade departmental action, Yahiya resigned the very day the probe began. While resigning, he promised to return salaries and other benefits of the four months he served using the freedom fighter's certificate.
Another ACC Director Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan submitted a fake Muktijoddha Sangsad certificate to the commission.
The certificate bore a countersignature of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Serial numbered 49,719, the certificate does not bear an issue date.
Sources in the Liberation War Affairs Ministry said the last certificate issued by the Muktijoddha Sangsad is serial numbered 47,931.
"If anyone produces a certificate with a serial number beyond that, it must be a fake certificate" said an official.
Asked, Abdul Aziz said, “The authority that issued the certificate should know what problem it had, not me. They gave me the certificate in 2001."
Under the rules, Muktijoddha Sangsad certificates must be signed by its secretary general and countersigned by the incumbent prime minister. Interestingly, Hasina was not in office of the prime minister in 2001.
In the past several months, the ACC investigated three secretaries, one ex-secretary and one joint secretary and found they obtained the certificates through irregularities, violating the Muktijoddha Council Act-2002.