The Anti-Corruption Commission will soon seek wealth statements from three Awami League leaders, including two former ministers, and members of their families on charge of accumulating illegal wealth.
The anti-graft body yesterday approved the notices for issuing upon former health minister AFM Ruhal Haque, former state minister for water resources Mahbubur Rahman and Rajshahi 4 constituency lawmaker Enamul Haque to know the reasons behind “phenomenal rise of their wealth and assets,” an official said.
In the notice to Ruhal Haque, the ACC asked for wealth statements from the former minister, his wife Ila Haque and son Ziaul Haque. Along with Mahbubur, his wife Preeti Rahman and their son will have to respond to the notice while the other notice addressing Enamul states that his wife would have to submit statements on all their movable and immovable properties before the commission.
During primary inquiry, the ACC investigators have found that their wealth is inconsistent with the known sources of income, for which, the officials have recommended seeking wealth statement from the three.
The commission on January 22 assigned seven of its officials to probe into the wealth of seven ruling party leaders – three former ministers, three current lawmakers and a former MP following newspaper reports that highlighted large discrepancies between the wealth information they had provided to the Election Commission before the 2008 and 2013 parliamentary elections.
