The fallen Sheikh Hasina government abused the Anti-Terrorism Act, 2009 the most to prosecute victims of enforced disappearance, found the commission investigating enforced disappearances.
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has found 16 secret detention centres across the country so far.
One of the main targets of this government is the recovery of stolen assets, or assets that have been pilfered abroad through capital flight.
Security footage obtained and analysed by The Daily Star shows that Hamid's car reached the barrier gate of the VIP terminal at 12:46am on May 8
CAAB’s own inquiry finds irregularities by training academies, raising questions about aviation safety
“They made us sign a waiver stating that we would never file any case before they handed over my brother’s body.”
Financial statements of former MP Kazi Nabil Ahmed and his brothers’ famed British tea enterprise offer a rare glance into how powerful people in Bangladesh take their money to the UK via Asia’s business hubs.
Eye-witnesses would describe that as early as mid-day the police were shooting at protesters breaking curfew and trying to go to Shahbagh. When Hasina fell and Gono Bhaban was taken over, the protesters turned on the police. The police were armed—the protesters were not. Even though the government had fallen, they trooped out and shot everyone in sight.
S Alam Group owner Mohammed Saiful Alam’s 2022-2023 tax file is a puzzle. In that tax year, he declared personal assets worth Tk 2,532 crore, but did not show any personal bank loans from Bangladesh or his foreign income.
When the air force transporter plane carrying Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka on August 5, it took off as a training flight and turned off its transponders to blur its flightpath and location..The transponders, which transmit location, heading
As Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed’s grip over United Commercial Bank (UCB) created a trail of disguised loans with abuse of political influence after he became a minister in 2019 back home, his brother Anisuzzaman Chowdhury Ronny’s assets saw a meteoric rise in the UK.
If there is one thing that differentiates the arbitrary detention of HM Rana from the other victims of enforced disappearance, it is that he knows exactly where he was inside the Dhaka Cantonment.
After the interim government revoked all diplomatic passports yesterday, questions have now arisen as to how long Sheikh Hasina can stay in India and whether she faces a possible extradition.
The civil aviation ministry has found several Biman officials, including high-ups, fully responsible for the syndicate that artificially hiked the prices of flight tickets to Malaysia in May this year.
Former NBR official Md Matiur Rahman, who became a subject of controversy thanks to a high-profile sacrificial goat, has made much of his wealth by minting pre-public shares, an analysis of his and his family’s shareholding in at least 15 publicly listed companies show.
Laila Kaniz Lucky is the upazila parishad chairman of Narsingdi’s Raipura and a retired teacher of a government college.
