In Bangladesh, there has been an uproar recently over the alleged corruption of several former and current government officials. There is a heated discussion on the social media about the ownership of unusual assets outside the known income, including cash, land, houses, flats, in the name of these officials and their family members.
Most of the assets acquired by these officials through illegal means are not in their own names but in the names of wives, sons and daughters or other family members.
Different types of statements are being made in the media from different levels of the government in publishing these news.
The Anti-Corruption Commission Act provides for punishment if it is proved that government employees have illegally acquired wealth or money in their own name.
But if they are found guilty of keeping illegal assets in the name of their spouses, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters or other family members, what are the provisions of the law for them?