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Dhaka: Truth and Accountability Commission (TAC) in emergency-ruled Bangladesh is to summon suspected top government officials as "big fishes" responded little to its earlier call to confess to their graft to evade criminal proceedings.
"We have come to know a lot of things about the involvement of top bosses of certain authorities in graft by interrogating the low-level employees," Habibur Rahman, TAC chairman and former supreme court judge told newsmen late Tuesday.
"TAC will serve notices to the (suspected) top officials soon," he said.
His comments came more than two months after the temporary quasi-judicial commission was constituted for quick disposal of graft related crimes of certain categories through voluntary disclosure and return of ill-gotten wealth by the corruption suspects to evade imprisonment, as part of a massive anti-graft campaign.
The three-member TAC has so far interrogated 126 individuals, mostly lower-grade government employees who have sought clemency by making voluntary disclosure of their graft.
Detention
The anti-graft campaign, launched by the interim government soon after it took power, initially witnessed detention of nearly 200 high-profile people, mostly politicians including former prime ministers Shaikh Hasina of Awami League and her arch rival Khalida Zia of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
The interim administration constituted the TAC in August this year as an alternative mechanism to dispose relatively petty graft cases, but it only saw the appearance of lower level government officials, a scenario that intensified fears that the top government officials who amassed huge wealth through corruption could escape justice.
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