ACC chairman, two commissioners resign

The Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, along with Commissioners Md Jahurul Haque and Mst. Asia Khatoon, resigned on Tuesday.

An ACC source confirmed the matter, revealing that they left their letters of resignation and departed the ACC headquarters around 2:30 pm on the day.

The sources also said that Moinuddin Abdullah and the two commissioners cited "personal reasons" for stepping down. Before their resignation, they completed their official tasks on Tuesday morning.

They were scheduled to hold a meeting with the ACC Reform Commission on Tuesday afternoon, but the commission informed them at around 1:00 pm that the meeting was postponed.

According to senior ACC officials, this sudden postponement led them to finalise their decision to resign.

The chairman and the two commissioners quietly left the ACC office after submitting their resignations, with ACC secretary Khorsheda Yasmin seeing them off.

Moinuddin Abdullah, a cadre official of Bangladesh Civil Service since 1983, was appointed as ACC chairman on March 3, 2021. Md Jahurul Haque joined as a commissioner on the same date, while Asia Khatoon, formerly Secretary at the Bangladesh Public Service Commission Secretariat, was appointed commissioner shortly thereafter.

The ACC chairman and two commissioners are appointed by the President for a period of five years on the recommendation of the Selection Committee constituted under Section 7 of the ACC Act, 2004.

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