ACC to check war hero status of its 9 officials
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to scrutinise the freedom fighter certificates of its nine officials, including a director general.
The decision came at a regular meeting of ACC on Tuesday at its Segunbagicha headquarters in the capital.
A two-member committee led by Zulfikar Ali, deputy director of ACC, has been formed to conduct the probe, ACC Commissioner Mohammad Shahabuddin told The Daily Star.
The committee will soon open a probe to ascertain the certificates of the nine are genuine. The nine officials are Kamrul Hassan Mollah, director general (legal); directors Golam Yahiya and Aziz Bhuiyan; deputy directors Dhali Abdus Samad and SM Golam Mowla Siddique; ex-DD Ranjan Kumar Majumder, Assistant Inspector Abdus Sobhan and court assistants Nurul Islam and Ishaque Fakir.
The move was made against the backdrop of obtaining fake certificates by some public servants after the government increased the retirement age of freedom fighters from 57 years to 60 in two phases.
Most of the nine officials, said Shahabuddin, did not declare themselves as freedom fighters while entering their jobs.
“It's not morally justifiable that the ACC will probe the allegedly forged freedom fighter certificates of others without making sure the commission itself is free from such fake certificate holders,” he added.
Director Golam Yahiya as a freedom fighter has already got a one-year extension in the job, said a source in ACC.
Earlier, the ACC probed such certificate forgery by three secretaries, one ex-secretary and one joint secretary and found irregularities and violation of Muktijoddha Council Act-2002 in issuing the five with freedom fighter certificates.
The government this year so far has revoked freedom fighter certificates of 182 government officials.
Around 11,000 freedom fighters are now in government service.
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