The Election Commission has asked the concerned returning officers to send two certified copies of affidavits of the six Awami League lawmakers, whose wealth statements suggest a rather unusual increase in their wealth over the last five years, to the commission by February 5, Deputy Secretary of EC Mihir Sarwar Morshed said yesterday.
He said the commission had directed them to send the copies via special messengers.
The EC would send one copy of the affidavit of each MP to the Anti-Corruption Commission next week while the other copy would be preserved at the commission’s office, the senior official said.
Earlier, ACC issued a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner requesting him to provide copies of affidavits of the six - former Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haq, former State Minister for Housing and Public Works Abdul Mannan Khan, former State Minister for Water Resources Mahbubur Rahman, and three lawmakers-Abdur Rahman Badi from Cox’s Bazar, Aslamul Haque from Dhaka and Abdul Jabbar from Satkhira.
Although ACC is investigating into the exorbitant rise of wealth of Awami League lawmaker Enamul Haque from Rajshahi, it did not request EC for his affidavit.