The interim government will form a high-powered committee soon to investigate and prepare a white paper on corruption and irregularities in the ICT sector during the Awami League regime, said CA’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam on Tuesday.
“We’re planning to prepare a white paper. There is a plan to form a high-powered committee within the two or one days…. this committee will present a white paper within two months,” he said.
Shafiqul Alam disclosed this plan at a press briefing at Foreign Service Academy in the capital.
He said the media ran many reports over a huge corruption and irregularities took place in the ICT Ministry and the name of digitalisation and Digital Bangladesh.
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Alam said Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus wanted a white paper to be prepared on corruption and irregularities in the ICT and digitalization sector. “It’s a decision of the interim government,” said the press secretary.
CA’s deputy press secretary Abul Kalam Azad Majumdar was present at the briefing.