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Get alert against fake phone calls: ACC
DHAKA, Sept 10, 2018 (BSS) – The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today
urged all to remain alert against fake phone calls since a quarter is calling
people over phone identifying themselves as ACC officials and demanding money
to relieve them from corruption charges.
The Commission has already received intelligence information and
allegations that a quarter is demanding money from cross-section of people
like government officials, retired public servants, and bank and insurance
officials by making calls over phone in the name of ACC officials, an ACC
press release said.
Following the receipt of the information, the national anti-graft agency
said: “The ACC is a statutory body. There is no scope of getting one accused
and making a graft suspect free from corruption charges by a single official
of the Commission. All sorts of communication over mobile or telephone are
totally prohibited. The Commission issues written notice to graft suspects in
this regard. So, there is no legal or administrative scope of doing contact
with any accused over phone”.
If anyone calls people demanding ACC official, the ACC requests all to
contact with nearby police stations or Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) or
director (monitoring) of the ACC dialing phone number 9352552 or mobile
number 01711644675.
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