Wealth statement

We see wheneversome officials including police officers, and moneyed men are implicated in cases, they are asked to submit wealth statements.It's fine that the prosecutors and the court want some sort of inventory of the assets of the accused person who is considered to be a fallen star by this time.
This gives birth to the question whether the officials and personalities concerned are required to make wealth statement to the tax authorities, banks and respective other offices. Unfortunately, ill-gotten properties of such persons come to the limelight mostly when they are accused of some other cases.
Should it not have been a normal practice to issue wealth statement publicly?Officials holding all the important offices in the government and the corporate personalities should be brought under mandatory wealth statement. Politicians, especially, members of parliament and ministers could have started the process, as it was pledged in their election manifestoes.
Abu Yusuf
Kalabagan, Dhaka
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