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The Commission filed cases against former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia regarding graft at the Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust. [25]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.
[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.
The Padma Bridge graft scandal was a political scandal in Bangladesh during 2016 and 2017, involving allegations of bribery linked to the construction of the Padma Bridge, the country's longest road-rail bridge spanning 6.15-kilometer (3.82 mi) across the Padma River.
The former prime minister is facing an investigation by an anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh, with Ms Siddiq reportedly named as part of the case.
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 ...
Bangladesh’s official anti-graft watchdog Anti-corruption Commission on Thursday questioned Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, involving charges of money laundering ...
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.
In 2009, the Awami League-led Bangladesh government established a tribunal in Bangladesh to investigate those suspected of committing atrocities during the war in 1971. Nizami and eight other leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami were charged with war crimes by the prosecution, as were two leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party .