South Korean prosecutors question ex-first lady accused of graft
South Korean prosecutors questioned former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Wednesday over a litany of allegations, including stock manipulation and bribery...
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Spain PM announces anti-graft plan as scandal rocks govt
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday announced an anti-corruption plan designed with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in a bid to salvage confidence in his scandal-hit government...
Israeli court delays Netanyahu graft trial appearance
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...
Former JUST VC lands in jail in graft case
Professor Md Abdus Sattar, former vice-chancellor of the Jashore University of Science and Technology, was taken into the custody of Jashore Central Jail on Monday in a graft case...
Ex-DGHS driver Malek, wife jailed in graft case
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Malek, formerly a driver of the Directorate General of Health Services, to five-year imprisonment and his wife Nargis Begum to three-year in jail for amassing illegal wealth...
Court freezes 34 bank accounts of ex-DG of SSF, wife
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to freeze 34 bank accounts of former director general of Special Security Force Lieutenant General (sacked) Md Mujibur Rahman and his wife Tasrin Mujib over graft allegations...
TIB raises question over move to appoint graft accused in ACC
Terming the government鈥檚 attempt to appoint an officer accused of graft in the ACC unacceptable, the Transparency International Bangladesh on Wednesday raised a question whether efforts were being made to make it ineffective from within the government...
Khaleda Zia, 7 others acquitted in Niko graft case
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...
Judgement on NIKO graft case on Feb 19聽
The special judge court-4 of Dhaka on Thursday fixed February 19 to deliver the judgement of Niko graft case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia and seven others...
Steps ordered for Interpol red notice for Benazir
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday ordered the authorities concerned to request an Interpol 鈥榬ed notice鈥� for the arrest of former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed in connection with graft cases...
ACC sues Mannujan, Shibli Rubayat on graft charges
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed three cases against nine people, including former state minister Mannujan Sufian and former Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Shibli Rubayat Ul Islam on charges of corruption...
Ex-MP Mizanur gets 8-year jail in graft case
A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced former Khulna-2 lawmaker Mizanur Rahman to eight years of imprisonment in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission...
GRAFT CHARGES: ACC to file case against ex MP Nurunnabi
The Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to file a case against former lawmaker of Bhola-3 constituency Nurnnabi Chowdhury for acquiring beyond known sources of income and assets...
GRAFT CASE: Ex-AL MP jailed for four years in Jashore
The Jashore Special and Session Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker Shahin Chakladar to four years of jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission around 16 years ago...
Six witnesses testify in Niko graft case against Khaleda, seven others
Six more witnesses testified on Tuesday in the Niko corruption case filed against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others...
Lanka welcomes US sanctions on former ruling clan
Sri Lanka鈥檚 new government on Tuesday welcomed US sanctions against two senior figures from the former ruling Rajapaksa family over two notorious graft cases involving aircraft purchases...
BNP standing committee member Mosharraf acquitted in graft case
A Dhaka court has acquitted Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member and former health minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over alleged accumulation of wealth beyond known sources of income...
Khaleda Zia acquitted in two cases
Former prime minister and BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was acquitted in two cases related to the Barapukuria coalmine and the Zia Charitable Trust on Wednesday...
Anti-graft work stalls as no top boss in ACC for 2 weeks
The Anti-Corruption Commission has yet to get its new chairman after its immediate past chairman Mohammed Moinuddin Abdullah had stepped down nearly two weeks ago amid demands for his resignation...
Khaleda, 2 others exempted from Gatco graft case
A Dhaka court on Thursday exempted Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, its senior leaders Kandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury from...
ACC arrests ex-DG of postal department Sudhangshu
Anti-Corruption Commission arrested former director general of the Postal Department Sudhangshu Shekhar Bhadra in connection with a graft case...
Fakhrul among 8 acquitted of arson
A Dhaka magistrate court on Wednesday acquitted eight people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi, in a case filed on charges of vandalism and setting fire to a Dhaka South City Corporation garbage truck in 2012...
Vietnam police examine green power projects in anti-graft probe
Police in Vietnam will examine 32 clean energy projects as part of an anti-graft probe at the Southeast Asian country鈥檚 ministry of industry and trade, the government said on Tuesday...
Hearing of Niko graft case against Khaleda adjourned till Aug 20
A Dhaka Special Judge Court adjourned the hearing of the Niko graft case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia and seven others, till August 20...
Trial of Prof Yunus in graft case deferred to August 5
Dhaka Special Judge鈥檚 Court-4 on Monday deferred recording the testimony of prosecution witnesses till August 5th in a case filed against Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and 13 others under the Money Laundering Prevention Act...
Former food official sent to jail in graft case
A Rajshahi court on Monday sent a former food official to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission on charge of irregularities and corruption in buying wheat from millers in defiance of government instructions in 2020....
Indictment hearing in coal mine graft case against Khaleda on August 5
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-2 on Tuesday set August 5 for holding hearing on charge framing in the Barapukuria coal mine graft case against Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and nine others....
Candidates鈥� affidavits, tax returns mismatch
Anti-graft watchdog Transparency International Bangladesh found a mismatch between the affidavits and income tax returns of many wealthy candidates for the third phase of the upazila parishad election slated for May 29...
Dhaka district registrar sent to jail in graft case
The Dhaka Senior Special Judge鈥檚 Court on Tuesday sent Dhaka district registrar Whadul Islam to jail in a case filed on the charges of amassing illegal wealth and...
Former banker jailed for 26yrs in graft case
The Dhaka Special Judge Court-4 on Monday sentenced Musabbir Rahim, assistant vice-president and head of Card Division of City Bank, to 26 years imprisonment in a graft case for allegedly embezzling Tk 2.50 crore between November 2015 to April 2016....