ACC facing pressure from foreign agency

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said a foreign agency was exerting pressure on the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
Without mentioning any names, she said various quarters were devising strategies to malign the Awami League-led government by labelling it as corrupt.
As an example, she said, when the anti-graft body was working independently, a foreign agency was putting pressure on it. “If so, how can the ACC work independently?”
Hasina made the allegations during a Victory Day discussion at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in the capital.
The prime minister said evil attempts were being carried out by local and international collaborators at a time when the government was going on with the war crimes trial.
In this regard, she mentioned of the communal attacks on Ramu Buddhists, garment factory fire in Ashulia and the killing of Biswajit Das, and said these are not isolated incidents at all.
Reiterating her firm resolve to hold the trial of war criminals, she called upon all to be vocal and to remain alert against the “conspiracies” of the collaborators of the defeated forces.
Hasina, also the Awami League (AL) president, said there was a class of people who does not have the capacity to win elections but still wants to go to power. They conduct propaganda using money, property and the media.
Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL presidium member and deputy leader of parliament, presided over the meeting.