The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 31 bank accounts of Orion Group chairman Mohammad Obaidul Karim and eight of his family members in connection with corruption allegations...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved charge sheets against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed two separate cases against former commerce minister Tipu Munshi and his wife Irena Malabika Munshi on charges of acquiring illegal assets worth around Tk 10 crore...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found suspicious transactions involving Tk 25,160 crore through bank accounts of Brahammandi union parishad chairman Md Luck Mia, his wife and one of his staff at Araihazar in Narayanganj.
A Dhaka court on Thursday issued travel bans on 23 people, including former Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman and former Janata bank chairman Abdul Barkat and former managing director Abdul Salam Azad in connection with a corruption case...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two separate cases against former textile and jute minister Golam Dastagir Gazi, and his wife, Hasina Gazi, on charges of amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and engaging in suspicious financial transactions...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed a case against four people, including two former vice-chancellors of the Jashore University of Science & Technology, on charges of irregularities and corruption in recruitment at the university...
The Anti-Corruption Commission鈥檚 lawyer on Tuesday conceded to the arguments presented before the Appellate Division by businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun鈥檚 lawyer seeking Mamun鈥檚 acquittal in a Tk 20-crore money laundering case...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed a case against former member of parliament from the Khulna-6 constituency Md Akhtaruzzaman on charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk聽3.47 crore.
The Anti-Corruption Commission seized movable and immovable assets worth around Tk 18,607 crore from corruption suspects in the past seven months between August 2024 and February this year.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed three separate cases against former lawmaker from Sirajganj-4 constituency Tanveer Imam, his wife Mahin Imam and their daughter Maniza Ismat Imam on charges of amassing assets beyond their known sources of income.
ALMOST a fourth of the Road Transport Corporation buses falling beyond economic repairs mainly because of poor maintenance in 15 years is worrying. The fleet of the agency has 1,512 buses. But, 1,102 buses run as 343 of them have been categorised beyond repairs, making any repairs financially not viable, and 64 are under heavy repairs. The agency bought 1,558 buses...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has recovered Tk 2.45 crore from the residence of retired Lieutenant General Md Saiful Alam, a former director general of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed five separate cases against five people, including former fisheries and livestock minister Abdur Rahman and home ministry鈥檚 former joint secretary Dhananjoy Kumar Das, on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
The Appellate Division on Monday stayed the anticipatory bail granted by the High Court to Suparna Sur Chowdhury, wife of former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor Sitangshu Kumar Sur Chowdhury, and their daughter Nandita Sur Chowdhury in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission for failing to submit an asset statement within the stipulated time...
The country as a whole is going through one of the most difficult periods, created by the previous authoritarian regime through corruption and money laundering and it has left a deep scar on Bangladesh鈥檚 overall economy and financial system...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against 23 people, including former Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rahman, former Janata Bank chairman Abul Barkat and AnonTex Group chairman Md Yunus Badal, on charges of embezzling Tk 297 crore...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has recovered two sacks of documents related to former inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Haque鈥檚 illegal assets from a relative鈥檚 house...
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 court on Wednesday acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson and former prime minister Khaleda Zia and seven others in the Niko corruption case...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched probes into corruption allegations against Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 25 former and serving officials, including former governor Abdur Rouf Talukder.
Transparency International Bangladesh has expressed concern over the government鈥檚 decision to appoint Amin Al Parvez, an accused in a graft case, as a director of the Anti-Corruption Commission....
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed four separate cases against former lawmaker Ranjit Kumar Roy, his wife Niyoti Rani Roy, and their two sons over allegations of accumulating illegal assets worth Tk 15.5 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 218 crore....
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday said that 175 people were secretly given appointment letters by Bangla Academy ahead of more deserving candidates based on the written, practical and oral examinations.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday summoned Islami Bank Bangladesh鈥檚 12 former and servicing officials, including its former chairman Ahsanul Alam, to appear at the commission for interrogation in connection with...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed cases against four people, including NASSA Group chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder and former Awami League lawmaker retired major general Mohammad Shubid Ali Bhuiyan...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed four separate cases against former finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal and his family members on charges of amassing illegal assets worth Tk 165.55 crore and unusual transactions worth Tk 850 crore...
The Anti-Corruption Commission has started the scrutiny of allegations of suspicious transactions in bank accounts of 24 journalists, including the Daily Bhorer Kagoj editor Shaymal Dutta.
THE agricultural sector has long been considered the backbone of Bangladesh鈥檚 economy. It provides sustenance and employment to millions. However, in the current context of diverse employment opportunities, modernising and mechanising this critical sector is urgently needed. The Awami League government鈥檚 ambitious 鈥楢gricultural Mechanisation through...
BANGLADESH has ranked the 151st, two steps lower than the 2023 rank, in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 that Transparency International released on February 11. The 2024 score is Bangladesh鈥檚 worst since 2012, which has identified the country with a 鈥榮erious corruption problem鈥� where the government loses the 鈥榗ontrol of corruption鈥�. It remains the second lowest...
Transparency International in its Corruption Perception Index 2024 indicated that corruption was increasing in Bangladesh as the country slipped two steps in its global Corruption Perception Index to 151, jointly with Congo and Iran.