Mohammad Jamil Khan

With their hands and legs tied, they were kept confined for three days straight. None of them got anything to eat, and when anyone would ask for water, only seawater was offered.

When migrant workers fell victim to labour trafficking and filed cases with the police, the law enforcers prosecuted or arrested the recruiting agents responsible for sending the workers abroad. 

Abdur Rahman Bhandari was struggling to accept that his son would never come back.

Some recruiting agencies, travel agencies, and airport employees have joined hands to send migrant workers abroad with forged papers, law enforcers have found during probe.

A transnational currency forgery syndicate has been smuggling fake Indian rupees into India from Pakistan for a couple of years using Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as transit.

A transnational syndicate from Dubai is controlling the smuggling and supply of the synthetic drug crystal meth, known as “ice”, from Myanmar to Dhaka, according to law enforcers.

A three-member gang from Muktagacha of Mymensingh that has been embezzling lakhs of taka by baiting people with fancy gadgets at low prices on bikroy.com has been nabbed by the police.

Six months ago, 52-year-old constable Md Iqbal started working in the traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

Boran Uddin posed as a Bangladeshi expatriate living in Dubai or Qatar, working for an international travel agency.

A transnational syndicate has been smuggling arms into Bangladesh from India and Myanmar for about four years. Its target group is criminals who would use arms in polls violence and Rohingya camps, say law enforcers.

With an aim to provide quick support to victims of cyber harassment, the police headquarters (PHQ) is going to introduce an artificial intelligence (AI) tool with all-women special wing called "Police Cyber Support for Women" (PCSW).

Reaching deep inside the Sundarbans, one will be taken aback to see mobile banking agents at such a remote place. But their set-ups inside the forest do a lot to help thousands of anglers, who build temporary houses there during fishing season.

It seems the efforts to make the Sundarbans safe and secure for anglers is still far from fruition. Finally rid of robbers in 2018, they have now become “captive” to a high interest loan or “dadon” system, which they have to subscribe to even get access to the forest’s waters.

Mofizul Hoque Tutul (47) is a cleaner and gardener, employed on a temporary basis at the Agargaon passport office.

CTTC officials have discovered a transnational syndicate that embezzles hefty amounts of foreign currencies through an international brokerage house.

They surrendered and handed over their arms in search of a regular life. But three years after the prime minister declared the Sundarbans “robber-free”, the robbers in question are yet to find a viable path in life, with no thanks to the endless web of proceedings of previously filed criminal cases.

When Jibon Sarker (not his real name) joined the police force as a constable about 10 years ago, he took it for a life-changing job. In many ways, it is; but not for the right reasons.

Around eight years ago, the government established passport and visa wings at different Bangladesh missions to provide better services to expatriates and visitors.

Twenty-year-old Md Bijoy has already paid Tk 2 lakh for taking a cleaner’s job in Dubai and has even got a visa to the Gulf emirate.

Some Awami League leaders and activists in Jashore have long been running an illegal arms business in the country’s south-western districts, exploiting their political links to make big money and to avoid arrest, police and local politicians said.