ACC chief hints at filing more cases

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Thursday dropped a hint about filing more cases over the BASIC Bank loan scam.
"Some 54 cases have already been lodged over the BASIC Bank loan scam and more cases might be filed in this connection," he said while speaking at a view-exchange programme on five-year strategy (2017-2021) of the anti-graft body held at its headquarters in the city.
In reply to a query about BASIC Bank loan scam, he said there are directives of the court regarding to the matter and ACC will carry out its work according to the court's directives.
Stating that ACC is trying to combat corruption, Mr Mahmood said the commission is not favouring anyone and it will not let anyone escape in the future.
He said it is very difficult to find corruption of someone holding a position.
Giving an instance he said, "An official who is in power keeps the file under his jurisdiction that describes his works which makes the work difficult for ACC to disclose."
Mr Mahmood said the people in Bangladesh are not committing corruption because of poverty rather due to greed.
He also informed that ACC's administrative teams are working on 25 government departments and the commission has been sending the reports prepared by these teams to respective ministries and departments.
The government will be able to put an end to the source of corruption by scrutinising these reports, he added.

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