The overall activities of the ACC will speed up, the commission hopes

Since the beginning of the current year, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) hotline has been conducting operations with speed in all types of complaints. The commission has also increased the number of daily raids than before.

Moinuddin Abdullah, chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission, said about the operation and the overall activities of the ACC, that the trust of the common people in the commission is the reason why Manav complains to the ACC and seeks redressal. That is why the ACC is looking at those matters seriously. These activities have increased in the new year, the number of raids has also increased.
Bringing up the issue of the commission's limitations, Moinuddin Abdullah said that the commission is ready to provide maximum service. As you know, last year I had a big appointment as Deputy Assistant and Assistant Director. About two and a half officers have joined ACC. As a result, the capacity of the commission has increased. But we cannot work on many crimes as they are not under the ACC schedule.

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According to ACC officials, most of the complainants are not included in the ACC's schedule and cannot accept the complaint for investigation. According to them not all can be held for investigation due to the limitation of their jurisdiction in money laundering provisions. Besides, the ACC says that it will be difficult for the ACC to work without increasing the jurisdiction of the commission in cases related to money laundering.
ACC Commissioner Zahural Haque told BanglaNews, we want to work on every complaint. But the commission could not accept the complaints. Because the number of baseless complaints is very high. Another reason is that a large part of the complaint is not included in the schedule of the commission. We have also pleaded jurisdiction over several other charges not in the Schedule. If they get jurisdiction, the scope of work of the commission will increase like this.
The organization has published an annual report based on a one-year investigation from January to December of last year 2022. According to the annual report published by the ACC, 19 thousand 338 complaints were submitted to the ACC last year. After screening the complaints, the agency accepted 901 complaints for investigation, which is 4.65 percent of the total complaints.

From 2017 to 2022, the complaint and investigation statistics of the last six years show that the second highest number of complaints was received in 2022. After Corona, the most number of complaints came in the year. In terms of investigation, the agency also recorded the second lowest number of complaints in six years.
According to the information obtained from the ACC report, 14 thousand 789 complaints were submitted to the organization in 2021, 533 of the complaints were investigated, which is 3.60 percent of the total accepted complaints. In 2020, 18 thousand 489 complaints were filed. 822 accepted for investigation, which is 4.32 percent of the total complaints. This is the lowest in the last six years.

Similarly, 21 thousand 371 complaints were received in 2019. Which is the highest in the last six years. The highest number of complaints accepted for investigation during this period was 1,710. Which is 8 percent of the total complaints. In 2018, 16 thousand 606 complaints were received, 1 thousand 265 were taken for investigation (7.61 percent) and in 2017, 17 thousand 983 complaints were received for investigation and 937 (5.21 percent) were received.

In 2022, 11,796 direct complaints were received at the ACC's best office, which is 60 percent of the total number of complaints. 967 complaints came from government offices or organizations, which is 5 percent of recognized complaints, 387 (2 percent) from private office organizations, 1,354 (7 percent) from newspaper or television reports, 1,547 (8 percent) from departmental offices. , 580 (3 percent) from enforcement and 2,707 (14 percent) by others.

In 2022, ACC fined the accused 2 thousand 632 crore 41 lakh 43 thousand 783 taka in various cases. At this time, the organization confiscated Tk 13 crore 96 lakh 19 thousand 167 according to the order of the court in favor of the state.

In addition, in the last one year, 585 crores 92 lakhs 58 thousand 156 immovable property croc tax commission.