Dhaka, June 12 -- Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the public perception that many Anti-Corruption Commission staff are involved in corruption is not fully false.

"All (ACC staff) are not innocent. No one can guarantee that all are 100 percent honest," the Prime Minister told parliament in reply to a supplementary question of ruling Awami League MP Maj (retd) Rafiqul Islam (Chandpur-5).

"The ACC will have to be careful from now on about those (ACC staff) who will work [investigate] so that they can't get involved in such activities that create such public perception," Sheikh Hasina said.

In his question, Rafiqul Islam demanded Speaker Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury expunge the words-many staff of ACC are involved in corrupti...