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

Raise voice against corruption: TIB

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) calls upon the young generation to raise their voice against corruption upholding human values.
15 December 2016

Rajuk office corrupt from top to bottom: ACC chief

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) acting chairman Nasiruddin Ahmed describes the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) office as “corrupt from top to bottom”.
14 December 2016

Graft trial against Destiny officials to continue

The Supreme Court upholds a High Court order that cleared way for the lower court to continue trial proceedings against Destiny group officials in two money laundering cases involving Tk 4,200 crore.
14 December 2016

Corruption with Tk 10 rice for poor

Corruption and irregularities in distribution of rice to the poor at Tk 10 per kg have been alleged in different areas of Sylhet division.
5 December 2016

Graft case: ACC challenges AL MP Bodi’s acquittal

The Anti Corruption Commission files an appeal with the High Court challenging a portion of a lower court verdict that had acquitted Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi of the charge in a corruption case.
17 November 2016