CORRUPTION remains one of the most enduring and pervasive challenges facing Bangladesh. From petty bribery to grand scale embezzlement, corruption infiltrates various sectors of public and private life. Despite significant economic growth and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against 11 people, including former housing and public works minister engineer Mosharraf Hossain and former Padma Bank chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat on charges of corruption and money laundering.
The government on Wednesday appointed additional secretary Mohammad Khaled Rahim of the Cabinet Division the secretary of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed two separate cases against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Md Mahbubul Alam Hanif and his wife Fauzia Alam on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk聽32 crore...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday started interrogating owners of different printing houses over allegations of corruption in printing books of the National Curriculum and Textbook Board...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 64 bank accounts, shares and insurance policies of S Alam Group chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam, and his family members in Singapore...
FIVE commissions, out of the 11 that the interim government has instituted to effect reforms in state governance, appear to have largely been sidelined whilst the government appears busy with the six commissions. The six commissions on electoral system reforms, police administrative reforms, judiciary reforms, anti-corruption reforms, public administration reforms and...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against two people including a former director of the Directorate General of Health Services for their alleged involvement in irregularities in setting up the DNCC Dedicated Covid-19 Hospital in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali area under a World Bank-funded project...
The High Court on Wednesday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to reinstate its former deputy assistant director Sharif Uddin within 30 days...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday initiated an inquiry into corruption allegations, including amassing illegal wealth, against former lawmaker of Comilla-4 constituency Abul Kalam Azad and High Speed Group of Companies director Iftekhar Ahmed Masud...
The chief adviser鈥檚 special assistant on posts, telecommunications, and information technology Faiz Ahmad Tayyab defended his recent letter to the Anti-Corruption Commission chairman, seeking assistance to keep a telecom project running...
The Anti-Corruption Commission got a total of 12,827 corruption allegations in the past 11 months since the fall of the Awami League regime in August 2024, amid a student-led mass uprising...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze four bank accounts of former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Major General (retired) Hamidul Hoque over allegations of corruption...
THIS is worrying that public servants, who handle governance issues, have topped the list of people, as Anti-Corruption Commission data show, engaged in corruption such as illegal wealth, bribery, power abuse and illicit financial flows. The public servants are followed by people in private service, businesspeople, politicians and elected representatives. And, the situation keeps...
The involvement of government officials and employees in various forms of corruption, including amassing illegal wealth, bribery, abuse of power, and money laundering, has increased manifold in recent years in Bangladesh.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against nine people, including senior officials of the Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training and several manpower agency executives, on charges of document forgery and facilitating the illegal trafficking of women abroad...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an investigation against former Barishal city mayor Abul Khair Abdullah and 18 others of the local government body, confirmed the ACC Barishal divisional office on Thursday...
Sixteen senior National Board of Revenue officials were brought under the Anti-Corruption Commission scrutiny in the past five days in the aftermath of protests by NBR officials over the ongoing revenue sector reforms...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated inquiry against five more officials of the National Board of Revenue over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed three cases against 15 people, including S Alam Group chairman Mohammed Saiful Alam and Reliance Finance Limited former managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk 270 crore through fraudulent loans and money laundering...
Bashundhara Group chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan, retired Major General Tarique Ahmed Siddique, who was the defence and security adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and his wife Shaheen Siddique did not appear at the Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday, disregarding its summon...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 57 bank accounts of former social welfare minister Nuruzzaman Ahmed and his wife Hosne Ara Begum over graft allegations...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed a case against Rajshahi city Awami League organising secretary Azizul Alam Bentu, his wife, and their son on charges of amassing illegal wealth and concealing assets in their statements submitted to the commission...
An Israeli court on Sunday postponed prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 testimony in his corruption trial after he requested a delay with the support of US president Donald Trump, in a ruling published by the premier鈥檚 party...
The members of the law enforcing agencies arrested four people including their ringleader, who were cheating people identifying them as Anti-Corruption Commission officials, from the capital on Saturday night...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two separate cases against 26 people, including former NRB Global Bank (now Global Islami Bank) managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, on charges of embezzling Tk聽49 crore from the bank...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated an inquiry into allegations of appointing 21 people to different cadre positions illegally under the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations during the Awami League regime which was ousted past year...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an inquiry into corruption allegations against the officials involved in the polling centres that reported 100 per cent voter turnout in the controversial parliamentary elections in 2018.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 29 bank accounts of former Awami League lawmaker for Narayanganj-4 constituency Shamim Osman, his family members and their beneficiaries for their alleged involvement in corruption...
Adviser to the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan said the interim government was working to dismantle the entrenched cycle of political corruption and establish a competitive economy through principled leadership.
