ACC takes action against 122 under Anti-Corruption Law

ACC takes action against 122 under Anti-Corruption Law
Published 22 September 2019

 

The Anti-Corruption Commission(ACC) took action against 122 civil servants, high-ranking officials and other staff including the two persons who have political power, from 2018 to 2019, under the Anti-Corruption Law, said Thant Zaw, Chief Investigator from the Prevention and Control and Investigation Department under the Office of Anti-Corruption Commission, at a press conference in Nay Pyi Taw on September 21.

“In 2018, the ACC took action against 46 civil servants—one advocate general who has political power, nine high-ranking officials, 13 officers, 17 staff and six public servants. In 2019, the ACC took action against 66 civil servants in total—a regional chief minister, two high-ranking officers, 16 officers and 34 staff, one public servant and 12 civilians,” he added.

The ACC received a complaint about the bribe-taking by the deputy director of the Complaint and Investigation Division under the Prevention and Control and Investigation Department. According to the ACC’s investigation, the deputy director did not take any gifts from the one who made that complaint. But the deputy director is found to breach the commission’s ethnic. According to the bylaw 289 of the Civil Services Regulation, the deputy director was forced to take early retirement reduction pension on September 6, 2019. The main weak point is weak public relation during the investigation, he said.

In 2018, 7,345 out of 10,543 complaints are linked to civil servants, accounting for 75 per cent of the total complaints. There were 1,888 complaints about the public servants—113 for lower house MPs and 1,775 other complaints, accounting for 18 per cent of the total complaints. The number of complaints about the private sector was 710 or seven per cent of the total complaints, he continued.