ACC chairman for interdepartmental knowledge sharing

Admitting capacity deficiency of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), its Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Sunday emphasised interdepartmental knowledge sharing and cooperation for better investigation of graft incidents.

He said conviction rate in the cases filed by the commission reached around 70 per cent at present which previously fell down to 22 per cent due to weakness in investigation.

He said these at the inauguration session of a week-long training workshop for ACC officials jointly organised by the ACC and Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) at the DMP media centre in the capital's Minto Road.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam and CTTC Chief Monirul Islam also spoke at the programme.

Welcoming criticism from people on commission's work, Mr Mahmood said, "The ACC is an active organisation, so it is normal to be critical about it. But the criticism should be constructive and based on objective information."

He said, "Corruption can't be removed from a country permanently. It (corruption) exists and will continue but we have to control it."

Stating that prevention is better than cure, the ACC chief said ACC concentrates on preventing graft acts before they take place the way CTTC stops terror activities before they occur.

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