The Anti-Corruption Commission’s (ACC) legal division is validating whether the nomination of Tenzin Lekphel as the next Secretary General (SG) of BIMSTEC has contravened the provisions of the Anti-Corruption Act of Bhutan 2011.

This follows a letter the National Council (NC) wrote expressing its concern over the government’s nomination while calling upon the government to urgently review the matter and rule out contravention of the specified sections or any other sections of the ACC Act before commencement of the next BIMSTEC Ministerial meeting.

The NC wrote to the Prime Minister and ACC after the foreign ministry’s response on the government’s nomination of Bhutan’s candidate to the post failed to convince the house of review. The NC’s good governance committee on September 12 had sought a clarification from the foreign ministry on the nomination and criteria for the appointment of the SG after the controversy on the issue.

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