Laundering Tk 2,000cr: ACC summons 10 for quizzing

The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned ten businesspersons for quizzing over laundering of about Tk 2,000 crore from People’s Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFSL).
27 January 2021

Lifelong AL activist ‘denied’ his vote

“Why did you cast my vote? It’s my right. Who are you?”
27 January 2021

A third of govt- owned buses broke rules

Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority have found different types of irregularities in 30 percent BRTC buses during a special drive this month.
26 January 2021

Trial of Wrong Man: ACC admits ‘mistake’ to HC in fraud case probe

Mohammad Kamrul Islam from Noakhali’s Purba Rajarampur was going to be another victim of the Anti-Corruption Commission’s “wrong investigation” like innocent jute mill worker Jaha Alam, who had been behind bars for more than three years due to ACC’s “wrong probe”.
26 January 2021

PK Halder, His Aides: ACC files five more cases for Tk 350cr graft

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed five cases against 33 people, including former NRB Global Bank managing director PK Halder, for allegedly laundering over Tk 350 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).
25 January 2021

ACC sues SI for amassing illegal wealth

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against a police sub-inspector over acquiring properties worth Tk 39.13 lakh illegally.
25 January 2021

FIR Manipulation: ACC sues former OC of Puthia

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday sued Inspector Shakil Uddin Ahamed for tampering with FIR of labour leader Nurul Islam murder case in Rajshahi’s Puthia in 2019.
24 January 2021

Vested property recovered from ex-minister Latif

Officials yesterday recovered a property in Tangail worth Tk 50 crore from former minister Abdul Latif Siddique.
24 January 2021

Deforestation unobstructed

Loggers have been wiping out hundreds of acres of forest in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram, within a three-kilometre radius of the Forest Department office. The felled logs are then smuggled through the department’s checkpoints, largely without any obstruction.
23 January 2021

ACC arrests land officer over graft in dev work

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested a union-level deputy assistant land officer after he was found making a fortune out of land acquisitions for the government’s development work in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali upazila.
21 January 2021

Turkish flag carrier fined Tk 3 lakh

A mobile court at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fined Turkish Airlines Tk 3 lakh for carrying three passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates.
15 January 2021

PK Halder’s aide Abantika arrested

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Abantika Boral, an aide to PK Halder, on three-day remand in connection with a graft case.
13 January 2021

Coal Scam Case: All 22 accused denied bail, land in jail

A Dinajpur court yesterday rejected bail applications of 22 Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) officials, including its six former managing directors, and sent them to jail in a case over the disappearance of 1.45 lakh tonnes of coal from the mine.
13 January 2021

PK Halder’s cohort took Tk 3,520cr loans with fake papers

With fake documents, a close accomplice of Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, alone managed to get loans of about Tk 3,520 crore from three non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) between 2015 and 2019.
12 January 2021

Forging Documents: Bangladeshis arrested in Malaysia

Two Bangladeshi men, believed to be involved in selling fake immigration documents, have been arrested in Malaysia.
12 January 2021

3 BR officials suspended over graft

Railways Ministry has suspended three railways officials -- two mid-level and one junior -- for their direct involvement in irregularities and corruption while purchasing materials for the Bangladesh Railway (BR).
7 January 2021

4 describe to court grief caused by PK Halder

Four depositors of People’s Leasing and Financial Service (PLFS), a non-banking financial institution, yesterday described their plights and sufferings before the High Court for not getting back their money from PLFS.
3 January 2021

Relief ‘embezzler’ wins award for service to poor

A local Awami League leader widely criticised for misappropriating rice meant for poor people has won an award for making “special contributions to social service”.
3 January 2021

Banker turns racketeer

He drives a Nissan X-Trail and lives in a duplex with foreign fittings in Keshorhat village of Rajshahi’s Mohanpur, where such luxuries raise quite a few eyebrows.
31 December 2020

Tk 2,000Cr Laundering: Faridpur AL leader lands in jail

Faridpur town Awami League’s organising secretary Jafar Iqbal Harun Mondal was yesterday shown arrested in a Tk 2,000 crore money laundering case.
31 December 2020