Anti Corruption Commission
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After reviewing the story of corruption in Bangladesh, I would recommend that three separate and independent Anti Corruption Commissions be formed namely: a. Anti Corruption Commission responsible for dealing with persons at the receiving end of the corrupt deal. b. Anti Corruption Commission to deal with the persons initiating a dubious deal. c. Anti Corruption Commission to deal with persons involved in moral corruption. Here we need a clear definition of moral corruption and a legal framework to handle the matter. Basically, we have two major groups. Group one is involved in financial corruption, and group two in moral corruption. We have seen so far that people involved at the receiving end are being prosecuted, but those initiating the process are moving around freely (reference to high level political corruption). The question might come how one would coordinate the efforts of these three organisations. There might be other good suggestions. But I would recommend setting up the office of the "Ombudsman" with powers to oversee the activities of those three organisations. The immediate past government set up the office of an " Ombudsman" for the financial sector. We do not know anything about its fate. This was nothing but upward mobility of a bureaucratic position. Hopefully, this position still exists.
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