ACC chairman happy with commission's pace of work
Donors meet chairman to assist ACC
Unb, Dhaka
Anti-Corruption Commission Chairman Lt Gen (Retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury yesterday expressed satisfaction over the pace of work being carried out by the commission and hoped that the cases would go to court in due time."We're happy...The work is going on at the same pace as was expected. We hope we'll be able to get the job done quickly and take the cases to court at the right time," he told reporters at his office. About the submission of wealth statements by 21 corruption suspects who were summoned by the anti-graft body, he said all of them, excepting one, have provided the statements. "Tomorrow is the last date and we hope the remaining person will submit his wealth statement. After that inquiries into the cases of 21 individuals will get underway." On his meeting with representatives from several donor countries and agencies, Mashhud said those who are interested to help came yesterday. Asked if the donors would provide any financial assistance and what would be the preconditions for the assistance, he said, "There will be no precondition for their assistance and there will be no financial assistance." He said they (donors) will mainly assist in the fields of training, information technology and investigations. The ACC chairman said trainers having the experience in the perspective of this subcontinent would be brought from abroad to train the ACC officials to enhance their investigation skills. About the IT, he said there would be office automation on a large scale, which would be done in phases. "This office will be different from other ones. There will be a networking by which it can be done what's happening in Chittagong or Rajshahi. It's a big dream...Hopefully, we'll be able to materialise it." Emerging from the meeting with the ACC chairman, Ambassador of Denmark Einar H Jensen, on behalf of others, told reporters that they discussed their supports for investigations, prosecution, strengthening IT and case management. "We're talking about some possible support for investigation, prosecution and IT and case management," he said. Australian High Commissioner Douglas Foskett, World Bank Country Director Zhu Xian, deputy head of Dutch mission Fritz Meijndeft, task manager for good governance project of the Asian Development Bank Gambhir Bhatta and head of governance of ADB Firoj Ahmed were also present.
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