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A court in Bangladesh sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's son and heir apparent on Wednesday to nine years in prison after finding the opposition leader guilty in a corruption case filed ...
Corruption allegations and convictions against top leaders of ousted governments are not new in Bangladesh. Hasina's main predecessor as prime minister, Khaleda Zia faced similar charges, which ...
The news agency is also revealing details about Bangladesh's plan to reopen the 25-year deal, and that it hopes to use the fallout from U.S. prosecutors' November indictment of Adani and seven ...
The Commission filed cases against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia regarding graft at the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust. [19]The Commission filed cases against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and eight others on 7 May 2008 for awarding a gas exploration and extraction deal to Niko Resources through corruption and abuse of power.
The prosecution did not oppose her bail petition. [11] The Anti corruption commission took the charges to court on 16 January 2012. [12] Khaleda Zia has filled a petition with the High Court to halt the proceedings of the Zia trust and orphanage case. [13] Khaleda Zia and her son Tarique Rahman are on bail in the case.
[6] [7] The Anti Corruption Commission chairman has admitted that corruption is rampant in Bangladesh. [8] Like many other developing and emerging countries, corruption is a part of life in Bangladesh. Regular citizens routinely pay bribes for basic services and to skip queues, and officials rely on bribes to make a living.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus and 13 others were indicted by a Bangladesh court on Wednesday on charges of embezzlement of 252.2 million taka ($2 million) from the workers' welfare fund of his ...
Barapukuria coal scam is a sensational corruption scandal of Bangladesh concerning the misappropriation of around 1.42 hundred thousand tons of coal, worth over BDT 227 billion by officials of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) from the coal mine of Barapukuria, Dinajpur District, in northern Bangladesh.