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Graft: Ex-AL MP Awal, his wife get HC bail

High Court (HC) has granted an eight-week anticipatory bail to former Awami League lawmaker of Pirojpur AKMA Awal and his wife in three corruption cases filed for misappropriating khas (government) land.
Graft case: Charges pressed against SK Sinha

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) presses charges against former chief justice SK Sinha and 10 others in a case filed under Money Laundering Act.
Corruption case: Ex-BNP whip Shahidul asked to surrender

High Court (HC) orders BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser and former BNP whip Shahidul Huq Jamal to surrender to the trial court in seven days in connection with a corruption case.
Writ challenges legality of few sections of ACC rules

A writ petition was filed with the High Court challenging legality of few sections of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) rules that curtailed police’s authority to directly record corruption cases.
Basir seeks bail in bribery case

Suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission Khandaker Enamul Basir submits a petition to the High Court, seeking bail in a case filed over the transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.
Farmers Bank ex-audit chief denied bail

The High Court refuses to grant bail to Mahbubul Haque Chisty, former chairman of Farmers Bank audit committee, in a corruption case filed on charge of misappropriating Tk 160 crore of the bank.
DIG Mizan’s nephew denied bail in graft case

The High Court refuses to grant bail to Mahmudul Hasan, a sub-inspector of Dhaka’s Kotwali Police Station and nephew of suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman, in a corruption case.
Recovery of Tk 80 lakh: DIG Partha sent to jail

A Dhaka court sends Partha Gopal Banik, deputy inspector general (prisons) of Sylhet division, to jail after rejecting his bail petition in connection with a case filed over recovery of Tk 80 lakh from his Dhanmondi residence.
Graft case: BIWTA official gets 7yrs in jail

A special judge court hands down seven years rigorous punishment to assistant account officer of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) Abdus Salam Khan for misappropriating about Tk 20.59 crore of BIWTA’s provident fund.
ACC plea for showing DIG Mizan arrested in bribery case

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed an application to show suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Mizanur Rahman arrested in a case filed for a transaction of Tk 40 lakh as bribe.
DIG Mizan’s nephew sent to jail in graft case

Mahmudul Hasan, a sub-inspector of Dhaka’s Kotwali Police Station and nephew of suspended DIG Mizanur Rahman, is sent to jail after he surrendered before a Dhaka court in a corruption case.
DIG Mizan handed over to cops

The High Court hands over top-ranking police officer Mizanur Rahman to the police after he appeared before it for bail in connection with a corruption case.
Is DIG Mizan more powerful than ACC, SC questions

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court asks the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) why Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Mizanur Rahman is still not being arrested in the corruption case.
Khaleda skips hearing on Niko charge-framing

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia did not appear before the Special Judge Court-9 for hearing on charge framing in the Niko graft case yesterday.
Free Jaha Alam today: HC to jail authorities

The High Court directs the jail authorities to immediately release Jaha Alam who was in jail for the last three years instead of the real accused in 26 corruption cases.
Bribery Case: Ex-chief engr of shipping dept sent to jail

A Dhaka court yesterday sent SM Nazmul Huq, the former chief engineer and surveyor of the Department of Shipping, to jail after he surrendered before it in a bribery case.
Graft Case: Three businessmen denied bail

The High Court yesterday rejected the bail petitions of three businessmen in connection with a corruption case filed over misappropriating Tk 12.85 crore from Pubali Bank's Chawkbazar Branch in Chattogram.
Graft: Former shipping dept chief engineer’s bail cancelled

The High Court cancels a lower court order that granted bail to SM Nazmul Huq, former chief engineer and surveyor of the Department of Shipping in a bribery case.
SC stays HC order on Jashore BNP nominee

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed the High Court's order of halting conviction and sentence in a corruption case against BNP Jashore-2 nominee Sabira Sultana for a day.
Rafiqul Islam Mia secures HC bail

The High Court grants six months’ bail to BNP leader Rafiqul Islam Mia in a corruption case in which he was recently convicted and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment by a lower court.
Graft: BNP leader Rafiqul Islam sent to jail

A Dhaka court sends BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia to jail a day after he was arrested by police being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in a corruption case.
HC grants bail to Destiny Group MD

The High Court (HC) yesterday granted bail to Rafiqul Amin, managing director of Destiny Group, in a graft case filed for not
Nur Hossain shown arrested in graft case

Nur Hossain, a condemned convict of the much-talked seven- murder in Narayanganj, is shown arrested in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission in 2016.
Graft: Trial against BNP ex-minister Altaf Hossain to go on

The High Court clears the way for a lower court to continue the trial proceedings against former BNP minister Altaf Hossain Chowdhury in a corruption case.
Graft case: No legal bar to continue trial proceedings against Moudud

The High Court clears the way for the lower court to continue the trial proceedings of a corruption case against BNP standing committee member and former Law Minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed.
Tarique was behind it

BNP Senior Vice-chairman Tarique Rahman, now in London, is the mastermind of Wednesday's attack on Bangladesh High Commission in London, alleged ruling Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday.
No election keeping Khaleda in jail: Fakhrul

No election will take place in the country keeping Khaleda Zia in the jail, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir says.
Ex-AB Bank chairman among 3 held

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrests three persons including a former chairman of AB Bank for their alleged involvement in laundering Tk 165 crore.
Pak court indicts minister in corruption case

An accountability court in Islamabad indicts Finance Minister Ishaq Dar in a corruption reference filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Charge framed against Moudud in graft case

A Dhaka court frames charges against former BNP law minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed in a corruption case filed during the regime of military-backed caretaker government. At the same time, the court also rejects an application filed by Moudud Ahmed, who was recently evicted from his Gulshan residence following a Supreme Court order, expressing no-confidence in Judge Imrul Kayes.