More than two and a half years after his arrest by India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, Bangladeshi businessman Prashanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, walked out of jail after a special court in Kolkata granted him bail.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to launch an investigation against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy on allegations of laundering $300 million to the United States.
Corruption, embezzlement, and money laundering have been endemic in Bangladesh but reached new heights during the last 15 years of the now-toppled regime led by the Awami League.
The spirit of 1971 lives on, and it is up to the present generation to ensure that its promises are fulfilled.
A government taskforce will investigate the country’s 10 major business groups’ alleged money laundering and other misdeeds.
A total of $234 billion was siphoned off from Bangladesh between 2009 and 2023, according to the white paper on the state of the economy.
Bangladesh has lost around $14 billion a year on average to capital flight during the Awami League’s 15-year tenure, according to the draft report of the committee preparing a white paper on the economy.
Britain expects the interim government to lay out the vision of how it will restore peace, democratic governance, and promote national reconciliation, said UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific Catherine West.
Bangladesh has intensified its efforts to sign bilateral deals with different countries with the view to recovering funds illegally taken abroad, said Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur.
Authorities must improve monitoring to keep the sector in check
BBS survey reveals alarming picture of wealth concentration by the rich
Governments that score low in corruption indexes are more prone to use force and violence to control and suppress dissensions and protests.
The precondition for building a corruption-free state is building a corruption-free society.
These cases of illegal property purchase abroad are not the main acts of corruption – these are the symptoms.
We must rectify the system that protects money launderers
PK Halder was jailed for 10 years for illegally amassing money and 12 years for laundering money. He was also fined Tk 333 crore. The punishment of PK Halder will be effective from the day of his extradition from India, the court said.
The number of new Bangladeshi companies joining the Dubai Chamber of Commerce has surged 47 percent year-on-year to 1,044 in the first half of this year, said the chamber. .With the latest addition, the total number of Bangladeshi firms registered as members of the Dubai chamber rose to 1
The number of new Bangladeshi companies joining the Dubai Chamber of Commerce has surged 47 percent year on year to 1,044 in the first half of this year, said the chamber
We congratulate the chief justice for his forthright identification of one of the main issues of concern for Bangladesh’s future: corruption.
