Abdul Momen picked as ACC chief soon after he resigns as public security secretary

His resignation from the Ministry of Home Affairs has been announced on Tuesday

Mohammad Abdul Momen, who recently resigned as senior secretary to the Public Security Division and the Security Services Division of Bangladesh’s Ministry of Home Affairs, has now been appointed as the chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission by the interim government.

Momen was appointed to the position of senior secretary of the home ministry on Aug 18. There he oversaw two divisions.

An official of the home ministry told bdnews24.com that Momen tendered his resignation to the Ministry of Public Administration on Monday.

Now, he will take the reins of the corruption watchdog.

The appointment was announced in a notification signed by Cabinet Secretary Sheikh Abdur Rashid on Tuesday.

Under the ACC Act, the chairman's and commissioner's ranks, salary, allowances, and benefits align with Supreme Court Appellate and High Court Division judges, respectively.

The two members of the commission are retired district and sessions judge Mian Md Ali Akbar Azizi and retired brigadier general Hafiz Ahsan Farid.

A BCS '82 batch administrative cadre officer, Momen was joint secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, chairman of BRTA, and Biman MD during the BNP-Jamaat alliance government in 2001.

He was the assistant private secretary to the then prime minister Khaleda Zia in the 1990s.

The then Awami League government sent him to compulsory retirement while he was an additional secretary in 2009.

The interim government returned him to his job by appointing him as the secretary of the Public Security Division of the home ministry a day after he was restored to the rank on Aug 17.

On Dec 10, the contractual appointment was scrapped and Momen was made the ACC chairman.

Earlier on Monday, he resigned from the post of senior secretary of the home ministry.