ACC to take control of Bac cases
Staff Correspondent
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday announced that the commission itself will take control of about 5,500 under-trial corruption cases of now-defunct Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAC) as the government has so far not given any explanation in this regard."There is no specific direction in the law whether the ACC would be responsible for conducting the pending cases of the bureau and so we asked for explanation from the law ministry," ACC Chairman Justice Sultan Hossain Khan told the BBC Bangla Service last night. Now the ACC, out of its own responsibility, has decided to take control of the 5,500 corruption cases as the law ministry has so far not given any decision in this regard, he added. Asked about the law minister's comment that there is no legal problem for the ACC about the pending cases, the ACC chairman said, " The ministry could have informed it in black and white." He also strongly denied the law ministry's claim that it had not got any letter from the ACC in this regard. The ACC could not be more active due to lack of manpower and infrastructure, Justice Khan said.
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