Dhaka – The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday decided to launch probes against the secretaries and top officials of the government who took freedom fighter (FF) certificates prior to their retirement.The Commission at its regular meeting today decided to conduct probes against them, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
He said the ACC will appoint inquiry officials soon to identify how the government officials obtained the freedom fighter certificates just ahead of their retirement although they never claimed themselves to be freedom fighters when they had joined the government service.
According to the allegation received by the Commission, Health Secretary Niaz Uddin Mia, Liberation War Affairs Secretary KH Masud Siddiqui, Science and Technology secretary AKM Amir Hossain, former secretary to PMO Molla Waheeduzzaman, Housing and Public Works secretary Khondakar Showkat Hossain and joint secretary of Liberation War Affairs Abul Quasem Talukdar, among others, took freedom fighter certificates including their names in the gazette over the last coupe of months. – UNB
