The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday said that a three-member task force has been formed to look into the corruption in post and telecommunications ministry and its different departments.
Meanwhile, former law secretary Alauddin Sarder and former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) Fazlul Huq submitted their wealth statements to the commission in the last two days.
The task force team will investigate the corruption and irregularities in the tender processes of the ministry and its relevant departments, in the submarine cable maintenance, Teletalk and the transport division of the ministry to determine the loss caused by graft.
ACC Director General (Admin) Col Hanif Iqbal told the journalists about the matter at a press briefing in the afternoon.
The commission has already sent a letter to the secretary of the ministry to extend cooperation to the task force through assigning an official, allocating a room for it as well as providing files and documents as per its demands.
The members of the task force are ACC Deputy Director Nurul Islam, Assistant Director Sayed Ahmed and Deputy Assistant Director Abdul Qader Zilani.