The ACC in its meeting on Sunday decided to issue the notices and officials told the press that everything was ready to serve the notices on the corrupt suspects asking them to submit their wealth statements.

Interestingly, ACC Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury yesterday held bureaucratic tangle in his office responsible for not completing the process.

He said, "It will take one or two more days to complete the process to issue the notices, as you know the problems in the bureaucracy."

The ACC on Sunday finalised a list of 21 graft suspects. The list contains a number of former ministers, lawmakers from BNP and Awami League, businessmen and public servants.

This time the ACC will give seven days' time for submission of wealth statement. When the ACC published its first list of 50 top corruption suspects on February 18, it had given 72 hours deadline to submit wealth statements.

Although in February the ACC made a provision for those who were not in jail to submit wealth statement in person, this time there will be no such obligation.