ACC to meet WB requirements soon

Ghulam says Azam's failure to appear unknown

 

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Ghulam Rahman said on Monday the information sought and issues raised by the World Bank's external panel will be dealt with very soon.
In response to WB Country Director Ellen Goldstein's suggestion for speeding up the investigation into corruption allegation in the Padma bridge project, Ghulam said, "We could not interact directly with Canadian authorities… the attorney general keeps contact with his counterpart but we are yet to get response."
Speaking at a press conference at WB office in Dhaka on Sunday, Goldstein said the global lender wants the ACC to move fast with the probe.
The ACC chairman was speaking to journalists just before leaving his office in the afternoon.
Reasons behind Azam Khan's failure to appear before the commission were unknown and if it is necessary, the ACC also can quiz him at a suitable place other than ACC office, said Ghulam Rahman.
"We will deal Azam's issue with humanitarian ground," he added.
Azam, the whistleblower driver of Omar Faruk Talukder, APS to former railway minister Suranjit Sengupta, had been asked to appear before the commission on October 21 over the railwaygate scandal.