The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated an inquiry into allegations of appointing 21 people to different cadre positions illegally under the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations during the Awami League regime which was ousted past year.
The 21 officers were recommended by the Bangladesh Public Service Commission to be appointed to the non-cadre services not to the cadre services under the BCS examinations, the anti-graft agency said.
The ACC made the move as it got preliminary information that the then authorities appointed the 21 non-cadre officers as carder officers under the 29th BCS, 13 months after the publication of the final results of the BCS examinations conducted by the Public Service Commission.
The 21 officers recommended by the PSC for appointments as non-cadre officers, but later appointed as BCS cadre officers as identified by the anti-graft agency include Asmaul Hosna Liza, Shajia Afrin, Most Nasrin Parvin, Sultana Razia, Momtaz Begum, Shamim Ahmed, Alpora Borua, Farida Yasmin, Fahmid Mehjabin, Ruksana Khatun, Shiukta-ul-Jannah, Farhana Yasmin, Jamal Al Naser, Mohammad Kaiser Khasru, Suvana Ikram Chowdhury, Asaduzzuman, Mahfuza Aktar Shimul, Shafiqul Islam and Kamrunnahar Shampa, according to a document.
Out of them, five were appointed in the administration cadre, one in the Ansar cadre, four in the customs and VAT cadre, two in the economic cadre, two in the family planning cadre, one in the foreign service cadre, two in the police service cadre, three in the taxation cadre and one in the general education cadre.
The remaining two other officers were also appointed to cadre services.
ACC director general (prevention) Md Akter Hossain at a briefing at the commission鈥檚 headquarters in the capital鈥檚 Segunbagicha said that the Public Service Commission recommended a number of people to be appointed to the non-cadre services under the 29th BCS after completing all formalities.
But, after 13 months of the recommendation, 21 non-cadre candidates were appointed to different cadre services through corruption and misusing power, he said.
He, however, did not disclose the names of the officers.
A senior ACC official told 抖阴精品 that they had information that the 21 non-carder officers under the 29th BCS were appointed to different cadre services through massive corruption.
He also said that they got information that not only the PSC officials, senior officials of the past government were also involved in the illegal appointments.
The 29th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations were the first BCS exams under the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime that came to power in 2009.
The preliminary exam of the 29th BCS was held in August 2009, while the final results of the BCS examinations were published in 2011.
The PSC came under heavy public criticism due to irregularities in the government recruitments and involvements of its officials in question paper leaks during the Hasina regime, which was ousted by a student-led mass uprising on August 5, 2024.
