Govt officials to be brought under NBR scrutiny

The government officials suspected of accumulating illegal wealth and assets through corruption are going to be brought under the scrutiny of the National Board of Revenue (NBR).

The NBR is taking necessary preparations to put those government officials under its scanner.

The revenue collecting authority is taking the move aiming to supplement the government’s move for establishing a discrimination free and corruption free Bangladesh.

“Definitely we want to establish a discrimination and corruption-free Bangladesh,” NBR chairman Md Abdur Rahman Khan said recently after inaugurating a programme at NBR.

He mentioned that the time has just started and they need some time for taking preparations. “You cannot see the move of this preparations from outside,” he said.

However, the NBR chairman declined to mention any specific date to start their job for detaining the corrupt public servants. “We are putting the matters on right track gradually, we are now placing the right things at the right place,” he said.

He said that the revenue collecting authority now collecting the data regarding this matter.