TI’s corruption index not acceptable to ACC: Iqbal

The Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Iqbal Mahmood said Tuesday that Transparency International’s ranking of Bangladesh in its Corruption Perception Index would not be acceptable without ‘facts and figures.
‘We are not going to accept this report,’ the ACC chief told reporters giving his immediate reaction about the TI’s global corruption index.
He said that the commission would like to seek the facts and figures behind the index to address the issue.
‘This is a kind of sweeping comment. Nobody should make sweeping comments. Comments must be backed by facts and figures,’ he added.
‘Does Transparency International agree that development was occurring in the country? That was also a question for TI,’ he said adding, TI itself showed its weakness saying ACC was weak and influenced.
He said that TI should value the good jobs done by the institutions otherwise the ACC would not accept such reports.
He advised critics to listen to what the government high ups were saying against corruption. 
About Washington-based Global Financial Integrity latest finding that illicit capital outflow goes unabated with $5.9 billion (about Tk 50,000 crore) siphoned off from Bangladesh in 2015 and that $81.74 billion was siphoned off from the country in 11 years since 2005, the ACC chairman dismissed the report as ‘idle story’ lacking ‘specific information’.
He said that searching people without specific information would not be possible.

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