Suspicious transactions, capital flight growing
Suspicious transactions linking to money laundering are growing in the county amid the resource crunch caused by a persistent dollar shortage.
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Lawmaker wants easier option to legalise undisclosed money
Independent lawmaker Suhrab Uddin on Sunday demanded five per cent tax instead of 15 per cent to legalise undisclosed money proposed in the national budget for 2024-25 fiscal...
Black money whitening scope to promote graft: Jamiruddin
BNP senior leader Jamiruddin Sircar on Friday said that keeping the provision to legalise black money in the proposed budget amounts to 鈥榩romoting corruption鈥�.....
Provision to legalise undisclosed money unethical: TIB
Transparency International Bangladesh in a statement on Thursday expressed its shock and disappointment over an 鈥榰nethical鈥� provision in the proposed budget allowing people to legalise undisclosed money...
CPD criticises black money whitening provision in proposed budget
The Centre for Policy Dialogue, in an immediate response on Thursday to the proposed budget, expressed appreciation for the reduction of taxes on some essential items....
AL MP for disclosure of money launderers鈥� name
Ruling Awami League reserved seat lawmaker Tarana Halim, also an executive member of the Awami League, on Wednesday demanded that the names of money launderers and market syndicate members should be revealed in the parliament...
Trump in first election test after hush money conviction
Donald Trump faced Republican voters for the first time as a convicted felon on Tuesday during the final state primaries for the 2024 presidential nomination, where he continued to sweep up votes...
Recover laundered money to check inequality: BEA
To check rising income inequality, the government should focus on alternative sources of revenues, including wealth tax, recovery of laundered money, recovery of undisclosed money and tax on foreign citizens, said the Bangladesh Economic Association on Monday...
Trump found guilty in hush money trial, set to be sentenced on July 11
A New York jury convicted Donald Trump on all charges in his hush money case Thursday in a seismic development barely five months ahead of the election where he seeks to recapture the White House.
Amnesty for bringing back smuggled-out money likely
State minister for finance Waseqa Ayesha Khan on Thursday hinted at the reintroduction of the scope for repatriating the smuggled-out money in the...
LDA demands white paper on grafts of Aziz, Benazir
Left Democratic Alliance demanded the publishing of the white paper on the alleged corruption of former army chief General Aziz Ahmed and former inspector general of police Benazir Ahmed and others who are involved in money laundering and loan defaulting...
ACC approves charges against ex-Basic Bank chair Bacchu, family
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved a charge sheet against former Basic Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu and his family members in a case filed by the commission on charges of embezzlement and money laundering of around Tk 95 crore...
Opportunity of legalising 鈥榖lack money鈥� unconstitutional: TIB
The executive director of Transparency International, Bangladesh, Iftekharuzzaman, on Monday said that giving the聽 opportunity of legalising 鈥榖lack money鈥� in budget was unconstitutional and discriminatory....
Call money rate surges to 9.3pc
The interbank call money rate on Tuesday surged to 9.3 per cent from 8.62 per cent on May 8, following an increase in the policy rate by the Bangladesh Bank...
Police foil Ganosamhati Andolan鈥檚 bid to besiege Bangladesh Bank
The police on Tuesday foiled an attempt by the Ganosamhati Andolan to besiege the Bangladesh Bank at Dhaka鈥檚 Motijheel...
Amnesty for legalising assets may continue聽聽聽聽聽
The government is likely give scopes for legalising undisclosed money by paying 15 per cent tax in the forthcoming FY25.
Two members of fake documents ring held
The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested two people on charge of embezzling money through trading confidential information of National Identity Card, birth registration certificate and Covid vaccination card...
Stormy Daniels recounts sexual encounter with Trump
Stormy Daniels, the porn star at the heart of Donald Trump's hush money case, testified in a rapt Manhattan courtroom Tuesday about a 2006 sexual encounter that precipitated the criminal trial of the former US president.
Chairman candidate lands in jail in Tk 2,000cr laundering case
The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Tuesday sent Samsul Alam Chowdhury, a chairman candidate in the Faridpur Sadar upazila parishad...
US congressman Henry Cuellar charged with bribery, money laundering
Federal prosecutors indicted a US congressman Friday on bribery and money laundering charges connected to a bank in Mexico and an energy company owned by Azerbaijan.
Hearings end in 鈥楶anama Papers鈥� money laundering trial
Hearings in the money-laundering trial of the heads of the now-defunct law firm Mossack Fonseca, the epicentre of the global 鈥楶anama Papers鈥� scandal, concluded on...
Send Money now more secure, accurate: bKash
A 鈥榙isclaimer鈥� has been added to the bKash app鈥檚 鈥楽end Money鈥� service to make customer transactions more accurate and secure...
Donald Trump hush money criminal trial starts in New York Monday
Donald Trump becomes the first US ex-president to go on criminal trial on Monday -- pushing the nation鈥檚 legal and electoral systems to the limit less than seven months before Americans decide whether to return the scandal-plagued Republican to the White House....