This is the maiden visit of the team of a series of visits to assess the conduct of the Anti-Corruption Commission's probe into the alleged corruption in the project.
The team is scheduled to sit with the anti-graft body at its Segunbagicha office today, an official of WB's Dhaka office told The Daily Star on Sunday.
On the other hand, Mir Mohammad Zainul Abedin Shibli, deputy director of the ACC, told The Daily Star that they will sit with the WB team today.
Shibli is a member of the four-man team of the ACC assigned to probe into the graft allegations centring Padma bridge project.
Luis Moreno Ocampo, a former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, is leading the delegation, which will submit a report to the World Bank in this regard later. The panel will also share its findings with the Bangladesh government and other co-financiers of the project.
The other members of the panel are Timothy Tong, former commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Peoples Republic of China; and Richard Alderman, former director of the UK Serious Fraud Office.
The WB had announced the appointment of the panel on October 5.
Bangladesh will get the World Bank's financing for the Padma bridge project if the global lender's external panel finds satisfactory the country's handling of corruption allegations over the project.
The WB cancelled its $1.2 billion credit for the Padma bridge project in June, saying it had proof of a corruption conspiracy involving Bangladeshi officials, executives of a Canadian firm and private individuals.
On September 20, it declared its decision to engage anew in the project 'upon satisfactory implementation of the agreed measures by the Bangladesh government, and with the support of the bank's governing bodies'.
The WB also clearly hinted that it would not tolerate any corrupt practices in the nearly $3 billion project.
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