Staff Reporter, The Daily Star
Housewife Jissan Mirza reportedly owns immovable and movable assets worth approximately Tk 11.5 crore.
Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission
Chairman and two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission resigned yesterday.
Not only did the ministers, state ministers and lawmakers amass huge amount of wealth during the Awami League’s four terms in power, their personal secretaries and assistant personal secretaries managed to stumble into fortune as well.
Corruption, grabbing minority lands to build resorts and using excessive force to crush dissent -- the name of Benazir Ahmed, once one of the most powerful figures in the country’s law enforcement, has long been synonymous with deceit or fraud.
As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight streams through your window, you hear the rhythmic beat of drums and the joyful clanging of cymbals coming from a nearby temple.
Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd, embezzled over 11,000 bhori (each bhori is 11.66 grammes) of mortgaged gold from 2,316 customers prior to 2021.
When Asaduzzaman Mia retired as the longest-serving Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2019, by his own admission, he went home with about Tk 1.75 crore in service benefits. But that does not give a true picture of his wealth accumulation. Fact is, the career cop and his family became muc
Housewife Jissan Mirza reportedly owns immovable and movable assets worth approximately Tk 11.5 crore.
Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission
Chairman and two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission resigned yesterday.
Not only did the ministers, state ministers and lawmakers amass huge amount of wealth during the Awami League’s four terms in power, their personal secretaries and assistant personal secretaries managed to stumble into fortune as well.
Corruption, grabbing minority lands to build resorts and using excessive force to crush dissent -- the name of Benazir Ahmed, once one of the most powerful figures in the country’s law enforcement, has long been synonymous with deceit or fraud.
As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight streams through your window, you hear the rhythmic beat of drums and the joyful clanging of cymbals coming from a nearby temple.
Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd, embezzled over 11,000 bhori (each bhori is 11.66 grammes) of mortgaged gold from 2,316 customers prior to 2021.
When Asaduzzaman Mia retired as the longest-serving Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner in 2019, by his own admission, he went home with about Tk 1.75 crore in service benefits. But that does not give a true picture of his wealth accumulation. Fact is, the career cop and his family became muc
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the US to bring back money siphoned off abroad.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has recently decided in principle to investigate corruption allegations against those former top bureaucrats who served during the Awami League rule over the last 15 years.