ACC power left unused

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Iqbal Mahmud yesterday, without elaborating, claimed that problems arose due to non-enforcement of the anti-graft body's powers, which were adequate.

"The problems that you have raised over ACC, I am admitting that there are enemies within ACC," he said at ACC's Segunbagicha office in the capital while presenting "Dudak Media Award" to journalists for investigative reports on corruption.

ACC is now observing Corruption Prevention Week 2016. 

From now on ACC will submit chargesheets of all cases it files, he said. According to an ACC official, chargesheets are given in only 30 to 40 percent of cases.

The awardees are Badruddoza Babu (deputy chief reporter, Maasranga Television), Mursalin Haq Junayed (staff correspondent, Channel 24), Fakhrul Islam (staff correspondent, RTV), Hakikat Jahan Hockey (senior reporter, Daily Samakal) and Nur Ahmed (staff correspondent, Daily Sylheter Dak).

Daily Samakal Editor Golam Sarwar, Ekushey Television Chief Executive Officer Manzurul Ahsan Bulbul and Press Institute of Bangladesh Director General Md Shah Alamgir also spoke at the event.