Dhaka, Nov. 2 -- Most private-sector power plants implemented during the previous Awami League government's tenure were steeped in blatant "corruption, fraud and irregularities" in the process of executing deals, investigators found.

A national committee formed after the fall of the past government in a student-mass uprising last year to dig out suspected anomalies in power- plant deals revealed such findings in its report submitted Sunday.

"The corruption was massive and it can't be accepted at all," said the committee chief, retired High Court judge Moinul Islam Chowdhury, while submitting the interim report to Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan at the latter's office in Dhaka.

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