Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Mohammad Abdul Momen said on Sunday that ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, also Awami League president, concealed information on property ownership in the affidavit submitted to the Election Commission before the 2008 general elections.
鈥楽heikh Hasina had shown 5.2 acres of agricultural land in her 2008 election affidavit, but ACC investigations found 29 acres,鈥� he said, adding that the commission could not proceed much further with its findings.聽
The commission chairman came out with the information, while responding to a question from journalists after laying the foundation stone of the ACC divisional office building at Alampur under the Dakshin Surma police in Sylhet city in the morning.
Answering to another query, he said that the commission did not have any pressure on it while there were various limitations.
Saying that a section of his colleagues at the Anti-Corruption Commission suppressed much information of corruption, Mohammad Abdul Momen remarked, 鈥榖ut the mass media do not do it.鈥�
He also said that honest people should be elected irrespective of which party they belong.聽
鈥業t is not so a big issue who belongs to which party. We need to see whether the person is honest or not,鈥� the ACC chair remarked.
He further said that corruption would reduce with the election of honest people. 鈥楤ut if we can鈥檛, corruption won鈥檛 decrease,鈥� he said.
Stating that accepting someone who might be an accused in an ACC case would invariably meet with the same consequences of the past, he said that candidates have to declare their domestic and foreign incomes in their affidavits.
He called on the mass media to find out the actual information and expose the lies if anyone concealed information from people.
Mohammad Abdul Momen also said that the ACC鈥檚 remit was to present the information and data in a case to the court which was to judge the evidence and take decisions regarding the allegations brought against an individual.
Later, he participated in a public hearing on corruption allegations against different individuals and organisations in the region, organised by the ACC in association with the Sylhet district administration at the Kabi Nazrul Auditorium in the city.