Corruption officials are probed.Provided by 7DAYS.ae Bangladesh's top anti-corruption body admitted yesterday that it has discovered several of its own officials taking bribes while enforcing a nationwide crackdown crack·down n. An act or example of forceful regulation, repression, or restraint: a crackdown on crime. Noun 1. on the practice. The Anti-Corruption Comm-ission (ACC See adaptive cruise control. ) is planning to take action against 28 of its staff, including 11 who will have to go to court, spokesman Colonel Hanif Iqbal said. "We have decided to take action against 28 of our officials after an internal monitoring and surveillance has found them seeking or taking bribes and breaking service rules such as secretly buying properties," Iqbal said. The officials exposed include two directors and several assistant directors, he said. Bangladesh's military-backed government reconstituted the ACC immediately after it took power in January last year following the imposition of a state of emergency and the cancellation of elections. The commission was made independent and given strong powers in an effort to clean up the country's graft-tainted reputation. A[umlaut umlaut (  m`lout) [Ger.,=transformed sound], in inflection, variation of vowels of the type of English man to men. ] 2007 Al Sidra Media Al Sidra Media LLC is a publishing company based in Dubai, UAE. It publishes the popular English-language newspaper 7Days, which is distributed for free. External links
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