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Deutsche Bank to pay $130m to settle US probes
Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:30pm on January 09, 2021
Deutsche Bank will pay $130 million to settle a foreign bribery probe and fraud charges in precious metals trading, US officials announced Friday. The bribery...
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China court sentences ex-banker to death for $260m bribes
Agence France-Presse . Beijing | Updated at 05:55pm on January 05, 2021
The former chairman of one of China's largest state-controlled asset management firms was sentenced to death Tuesday for soliciting $260 million in bribes, corruption and...
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Wife of PS to KUET VC caught taking money for jobs
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 08:50pm on December 17, 2020
A number of inhabitants in Madhya Teligati area under Aranghata police station in Khulna city on Thursday kept the wife of the private secretary to...
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ACC chair admits rampant bribery, corruption in Bangladesh
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 11:46pm on November 29, 2020
Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Iqbal Mahmood on Sunday said that bribery and corruption were rampant in government services. ‘We are admitting that there are high levels...
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Goldman Sachs agrees to largest penalty ever in 1MDB scandal
Agence France-Presse . New York | Updated at 10:47pm on October 23, 2020
Global financial titan Goldman Sachs agreed to pay $2.9 billion in penalties to settle criminal charges in the 1MDB Malaysian bribery scandal, the largest US...
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TIB urges Bangladesh’s trade partners to stop bribery
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka | Updated at 01:04am on October 14, 2020
Expressing grave concern that Bangladesh’s leading foreign trade partners have been shockingly failing to enforce action against foreign bribery, Transparency International Bangladesh called upon...
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Two Titas Gas officials jailed for 5 years
Court Correspondent | Updated at 12:00am on October 12, 2020
A Dhaka court on Sunday sentenced two officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited to five years’ imprisonment in a bribery case. Judge...
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Trial of DIG Mizan, Basir in bribery case begins
Court Correspondent | Updated at 01:01am on August 20, 2020
Testimony in a bribery case against suspended deputy inspector general of police Mizanur Rahman and suspended Anti-Corruption Commission director Khandaker Enamul Basir began at a...
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Trial of DIG Mizan, Basir deferred till Aug 19
Court Correspondent | Updated at 01:55am on August 13, 2020
The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal on Wednesday deferred till August 19 the trial of suspended deputy inspector general of police Mizanur Rahman and suspended Anti-Corruption...
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Bangladesh Football Federation accused of offering bribe
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 10:27pm on June 08, 2020
Bangladesh Football Federation on Monday was accused of offering bribes to Tangail Football Academy secretary Atikur Rahman Khan Jamil ahead of its upcoming elections...