Report in The Daily Star, Oct 13, 2023An IMF delegation yesterday enquired about the steps taken by the ACC to bring back laundered money to Bangladesh. The IMF team held a meeting with the Anti-Corruption Commission officials at the ACC head office in Dhaka. The ACC responded that they had sent letters seeking legal assistance from the countries where the money had been laundered. The meeting also focused on the ACC’s activities and future plans.…
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by Tariq Saeed in Dawn, September 4th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: In the ongoing investigation of the Jaranwala Quran desecration case, one of the arrested suspects has told police that he hired a hitman, Allah Ditta Maseeh, and provided him with money and motorcycle to eliminate his opponent, the main suspect in the desecration incident. When Ditta’s attempt to assassinate the target failed, the suspect devised a plan involving the desecration of the Quran to frame…
by Chaitanya Chandra Halder, Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, June 26, 2023The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of 37 more people in the much-talked about Tk 2,000 crore money laundering racket of Faridpur. The newly identified suspects include current and former leaders of the ruling Awami League in the district. The case was originally filed by the CID with Kafrul Police Station in June 2020 against Sajjad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, February 21st, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior security official in the provincial capital has revealed that the militants are spending the money extorted from the people to carry out their activities in the country. He told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the extortion demands totalled around Rs1.06 billion as indicated by the complaints lodged by the police. The official said that the amount was much higher than reported because many people…
Four in every 10 households in Sri Lanka experienced a reduction in their incomes from June to December 2022, and one in every two households are currently relying on negative coping mechanisms to cope with the lack of food or money to buy it, a Food and Agriculture Organisation (FOA) report said. In its response overview for the period of June to December 2022, the United Nations agency said the window of opportunity to support…
Report in The Nation, Dec 08, 2022PESHAWAR – Counter Terrorism Department on Wednesday claimed to have arrested five terrorists including one having head money of Rs2 million. A police official said that on a tip-off, the CTD personnel along with other spy agencies raided an area in the Bannu region and arrested the four men. One Kalashnikov, three mobile phones. The arrestees belonged to the banned TTP-Tipu group and had been wanted by the law-enforcement…