BANGLADESH

The Anti-Corruption Commission will no longer have to depend on the law enforcers for some of its probe-related requirements, as they now have their own investigation arm.

ACC commissioner Mohammad Sahabuddin Chuppu told , "The probe unit will collect information about corruption of a number of organisations in the communications, and the health and education sectors, the National Board of Revenue, customs, port authorities and the capital development authority RAJUK."

"Probing corruption and investigating in conventional manner usually does not bring the expected results or is not up to the mark," the circular issued on Sunday regarding the probe unit's formation said.

"Since the need to collect information through detective action arises while probing most corruption allegations, a detective unit has been formed…," it read.

A separate circular was also issued assigning commission's deputy director Mir Joynul Abedin Shibli and assistant director S M M Akhtar Hamid Bhuiyan to run the unit.

On the jurisdiction of the unit officials, the circular said they will function under the supervision of the commission's director general. They will need to take permission from the ACC chairman before any investigation.

The officials in the unit will get an additional pay of Tk 5,000 per month.