The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) will scrutinise freedom fighter (FF) certificates of its nine officials including a director general in the wake of forgery resorted to by the government officials in obtaining the certificates.
A two-member committee has been formed to conduct the enquiry, headed by ACC Chairman M Badiuzzaman.
"The Commission came up with the decision on Tuesday at a regular meeting at the ACC office in Dhaka in response to an instruction from the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs," ACC Commissioner Mohammad Shahabuddin, one of the members of the committee, told the FE.
The ministry issued a circular to the anti-graft body asking it to conduct the enquiry.
The alleged forged certificate holders are ACC director general (legal) Kamrul Hasan Mollah, its directors Golam Yahiya and Aziz Bhuiyan, deputy directors Dali Abdus Samad and SM Golam Mowla Siddique, former deputy director Ranjan Kumar Majumder, assistant inspector Abdus Sobhan, and court assistants Nurul Islam and Ishaque Fakir.
Official sources said the ACC director general (legal) and director Golam Yahiya had managed FF certificates showing false documents. Golam Yahiya has already got a one-year job extension as a freedom fighter showing his FF certificate.
Earlier, the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs announced a circular asking all ministries, directorates, departments and other government bodies to identity the freedom fighters who are in government service and send the list of fake freedom fighters to the Public Administration Ministry.
The ACC officials, who are going to face the probe, did not mention their status as freedom fighters when they had joined their jobs.
On September 14, 2014, the government cancelled the FF certificates of five top bureaucrats after ACC's probe found they had obtained the certificates without properly fulfilling the conditions.
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