The recommendations of the Anti-Corruption Reform Commission must be implemented with a specific focus on the ACC’s true independence and accountability.
Dirty money is conveniently welcomed in host economies, becoming clean until proven otherwise.
Dr Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB), speaks with Naznin Tithi of The Daily Star.
Whether the fall of Sheikh Hasina’s regime will eventually lead to a sufficiently robust democratic transition remains to be seen.
The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.
Collusive abuse of power is a major reason why perpetrators of high-level corruption can get away scot-free in Bangladesh.
Corruption is a global menace that no country has succeeded in bringing down to zero level.
If Bangladesh is to succeed in corruption control, impunity must be challenged, and the powerful in particular must be brought to justice.
Fighting tax evasion, preventing trade-based illicit financial outflows and ending the culture of money laundering and loan defaults is a much more sustainable solution to adding to foreign exchange reserves than taking foreign loans on interest.
The draft Anti-Discrimination Bill 2022 was placed in parliament on April 5, 2022. Long years of civil society engagement and advocacy with the government have catalysed this initiative.
The draft Mass Media Employees (Services Conditions) Bill, placed in parliament on April 1, 2022, is a long-overdue initiative.
Two weeks after the brutal Russian invasion of Ukraine, how it may eventually evolve remains uncertain, given Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s apparent mission of neutralising the neighbour—which could imply virtual annexation.
Since its creation in 2004, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has always faced trust and credibility issues.
Bangladesh has transformed from a war-ravaged, resource-starved and acutely poverty-stricken least developed country (LDC) at independence in 1971, into a low middle income country by 2015.
The Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021 on January 25, 2022.
According to the latest report of the US-based NGO Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on trade-based illicit financial transfers, between 2009 and 2018, Bangladesh lost a staggering USD 8.275 billion (Tk 71,000 crore) per year, on average, through misinvoicing in export and import trade.
December 9 is observed as the International Anti-corruption Day (IACD). On this day in 2003, the United Nations called upon governments and peoples of the world to mark the adoption of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
The Berlin-based Transparency International released its “Government Defence Integrity (GDI) Index 2020” on November 16, 2021.
