ACC starts serving notices to 17 graft suspects today

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The Anti-Corruption Commission will start serving notices to 17 corruption suspects, including former ministers
Moudud Ahmed and Aminul Haque, today (Monday) directing them to submit their wealth statements within seven working days, reports UNB.
"The notices are ready…We'll start sending those to them tomorrow for submitting their wealth statements within seven days," a highly placed source told the news agency Sunday.
The 17 corruption suspects are former ministers Moudud Ahmed and Aminul Haque, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's assistant private secretary AFM Bahauddin Nasim, former Commerce Adviser and Juba Dal president Barkat Ullah Bulu, Hasina's former APS Rabiul Muqtadir, AL's Religious Affairs secretary Sheikh Md Abdullah, former Khulna mayor Kazi Aminul Haq, former minister Mirza Abbas' brother Mirza Khokon, former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's nephew Shahrin Islam Tuhin, former BNP MP Habibul Islam Habib, BNP municipality chairman Manirul Haq Saku, AL leader Ali Reza Chowdhury, former BNP municipality chairman Golam Kibria Gaus, former MP and Partex Group Chairman Abul Hashem, former secretary Ismail Zabiullah, owner of Uttara Group Giridhari Lal Modi and former member of National Board of Revenue ATM Sarwar Hossain. Sixteen of the suspects, except former Law Minister Moudud, were on the second list of 50 corruption suspects published on March 8 based on which many political bigwigs, including Tarique Rahman, Dr Mosharraf Hossain and mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, were detained. According to the ACC source, all the 17 corruption suspects would be issued notices as per the section 26(1) of the ACC Act, 2004 and section 17 of the ACC Rules, 2007.
The source said the Commission would very soon issue notices to yet another 12 corruption suspects of the "third list". "The file is pending with the Commission for approval and hopefully it will be approved very soon."
About issuing notices to the corruption suspects, ACC Chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury told reporters Sunday afternoon that the Commission already approved issuance of the notices to the suspects. "It'll take a day or two to complete the process."
According to another report from Chandpur, former state minister Ehsanul Haq Milon and three others have been asked to appear at the ACC office in Comilla to testify before the committee investigating corruption. A notice was pasted Sunday on the door of Milan's house at Govindapur village in Kachua upazila asking him to appear before the committee on July 5.
Milan, accused in as many as 12 criminal cases including extortion and corruption, has gone into hiding.
Former MP Alamgir Haider Khan, industrialist and BNP leader Harun-or-Rashid and Mercantile Bank director M A Hannan, all hailing from Faridganj upazila have also been asked to appear before the ACC office in Comilla today. ACC deputy director Shafiqur Rahman Bhuiyan issued the identical notice.