ACC focuses on disposal of 150 cases

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is putting more efforts into disposal of over 150 cases, proceedings of which have been stayed by higher court following writ petitions of the defendants.
The ACC wants to get these cases filed by the commission disposed of, said ACC Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury while talking to the journalists at the ACC headquarters yesterday.
Replying to a query over the fate of probe report on the Gatco corruption case submitted in November last year, he said the decision on the matter would be made very soon.
Mashhud said the verdict of the cases, proceedings of which remain stayed, will decide the fate of the next cases.
He said the ACC would take interview of the officials who had not been absorbed from the now-defunct bureau of Anti-Corruption on February 7. Of them, those who are skilled and have good track records would be absorbed in the ACC.
A total of 263 staffs were not absorbed into the ACC from the bureau of Anti-Corruption after the commission was formed in 2004.