Shariful Islam

CID probe uncovers nine-member network; SIMs registered to others used for ransom

What began as a promise of a restaurant job in Cambodia turned into a nightmare for Mohammad Monnan Soyal, who was sold to a Chinese-run scam syndicate for $2,085, tortured and forced to participate in online fraud.

Md Uzzal Hossain, a resident of Chuadanga’s Alamdanga, borrowed money from NGOs and local lenders in 2022 to send his younger brother Md Ariful Islam to Italy through a broker.

International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday sentenced Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader and six other senior party and affiliated organisation leaders to death for crimes against humanity during the July-August mass uprising.

Acute shortages of gas and electricity are crippling production at over 400 factories, mainly RMG units, across major industrial hubs, with 202 facing the risk of a complete shutdown within one to two months if the crisis persists, according to the Industrial Police (IP).

Twenty-two years after the August 21 grenade attack, the case remains one of the most consequential unresolved cases in Bangladesh’s history.

From the outside, the ageing two-storey building inside the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-1 headquarters in Uttara appears almost idyllic.

Police shot him at point-blank on the final day of the July uprising, then made his body disappear, stripping his elderly parents of the chance to bury their only son, secure timely justice, and receive the state compensation that could have lifted them from crushing poverty.