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”.

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed five cases against 33 people, including former NRB Global Bank managing director PK Halder, for allegedly laundering over Tk 350 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed a case against a police sub-inspector over acquiring properties worth Tk 39.13 lakh illegally.

Officials yesterday recovered a property in Tangail worth Tk 50 crore from former minister Abdul Latif Siddique.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday sued Inspector Shakil Uddin Ahamed for tampering with FIR of labour leader Nurul Islam murder case in Rajshahi’s Puthia in 2019.

Loggers have been wiping out hundreds of acres of forest in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram, within a three-kilometre radius of the Forest Department office. The felled logs are then smuggled through the department’s checkpoints, largely without any obstruction.

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested a union-level deputy assistant land officer after he was found making a fortune out of land acquisitions for the government’s development work in Cox’s Bazar’s Moheshkhali upazila.

A mobile court at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fined Turkish Airlines Tk 3 lakh for carrying three passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed Abantika Boral, an aide to PK Halder, on three-day remand in connection with a graft case.

A Dinajpur court yesterday rejected bail applications of 22 Barapukuria Coal Mining Company Limited (BCMCL) officials, including its six former managing directors, and sent them to jail in a case over the disappearance of 1.45 lakh tonnes of coal from the mine.

With fake documents, a close accomplice of Proshanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, alone managed to get loans of about Tk 3,520 crore from three non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) between 2015 and 2019.

Two Bangladeshi men, believed to be involved in selling fake immigration documents, have been arrested in Malaysia.