Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir, founder chairman of Padma Bank, has accused incumbent Chairman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat of misusing Tk 100 crore from the troubled lender.

Over 600 miners of Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited in Dinajpur left the project area Sunday night protesting against unbearable working conditions.

Four election officials in Kushtia have been sued for their alleged involvement in National Identity Card forgery.

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to submit within two and a half months the charge sheets in the 21 cases filed over BASIC Bank loan scam.

The High Court yesterday expressed utmost dissatisfaction and disappointment with the Anti-Corruption Commission for the long delay in completing investigations in the cases over BASIC Bank loan scams.

The High Court yesterday wanted to know the names, addresses and current status of Bangladeshis who deposited laundered money to overseas banks and enquired what steps had been taken against them.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered the Anti-Corruption Commission to confiscate 59 acres of land and three flats of Proshanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, in a money laundering case.

The National Board of Revenue has asked banks for detailed information of all types of accounts and transactions of five people, including former Bangladesh Bank deputy governor SK Sur Chowdhury, present Executive Director Md Shah Alam and their spouses.

As road safety authority failed to achieve the target to halve the number of road accident fatalities by last year, it is now going to extend the deadline by another 10 years.

A freedom fighter has sued nine people, including two policemen, for illegally lifting stones from his property in Jaflong of Sylhet’s Gowainghat upazila.

A mobile court has jailed a local Jubo League leader and two of his associates for different terms over threatening rival mayor candidates in tomorrow’s Jibannagar municipality polls in Chuadanga.

Persons with disabilities have to pay between Tk 1,000 and Tk 3,000 extra to be included in the government’s disability allowance scheme, said a new report of Transparency International Bangladesh.

A High Court bench yesterday observed that the punishment for money laundering should be enhanced from existing 12 years’ imprisonment to life imprisonment considering the gravity of the offence.

Police arrested two government officials in Dinajpur on Monday for transferring around Tk 2.2 crore digitally from the state treasury over the last two years by forging documents, user IDs and passwords.

Shahadat Hossain, defeated mayor candidate in Chattogram City Corporation polls from the BNP, has demanded a re-election, alleging that verdict of the people was “robbed” by various government agencies and law enforcers with the help of the administration.

Almost a dozen lawmakers are involved in money laundering, human trafficking, and property grabbing, and other forms of corruption, BNP MP Gulam Mohammad Siraj told parliament yesterday.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned ten businesspersons for quizzing over laundering of about Tk 2,000 crore from People’s Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFSL).

“Why did you cast my vote? It’s my right. Who are you?”

Mobile courts of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority have found different types of irregularities in 30 percent BRTC buses during a special drive this month.

Mohammad Kamrul Islam from Noakhali’s Purba Rajarampur was going to be another victim of the Anti-Corruption Commission’s “wrong investigation” like innocent jute mill worker Jaha Alam, who had been behind bars for more than three years due to ACC’s “wrong probe”.