The Rohingya refugee community in Bangladesh is facing increasing violence and insecurity from criminal gangs and Islamist armed groups operating within the refugee camps, as Bangladeshi authorities fall short in their duty to provide adequate support and protection, claims areport published by Human Rights Watch.

A Hong Kong trading company was allegedly defrauded out of more than $13 million in a sophisticated international scam. Their investigations led them to a convicted Bangladeshi fraudster — and uncovered payments he made to his long-time friend, the head of Bangladesh’s capital markets regulator.

After it has been delayed 72 times, a court in Bangladesh has ordered police to finally submit a report on the 2016 theft of US$101 million from the Central Bank by the end of July.

A group of 15 to 20 men have beaten to death Bangladeshi journalist Golam Rabbani Nadim in what appears to be a retaliation for his reporting about a local politician who allegedly orchestrated the attack, according to The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a 23-year-old man after he described to reporters from Deutsche Welle how he was tortured by the country’s notorious counter-terrorism force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), after being accused of illegal alcohol possession.

Four men in Bangladesh have attacked the brother of an OCCRP-affiliated journalist, telling him while they were beating him with iron bars in front of his home in Dhaka that he is being punished for his brother’s critical reporting about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government.

A prominent Bangladeshi politician has come under scrutiny by the nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission following an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Investigation of his unreported offshore real estate holdings.

Another wave of oppression has befallen the Rohingya people as refugees face violence, corruption, and persecution at the hands of Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn), according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Mohammed Abdus Sobhan Miah worked as a cab driver, pizza cook, and drugstore clerk while living in New York City, but a few years after returning to Bangladesh to serve as an aide to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, he started secretly snapping up properties in the city worth millions.

Human Rights Watch (HRW)urged the Bangladesh government to stop the widespread crackdown on and the fake charges against the opposition as the country is preparing for general elections in 2023.

After days of nationwide protests against her arrest, authorities in Bangladesh granted on Sunday conditional bail to a female investigative journalist who was arrested while working on a story about alleged corruption during the South Asian country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

An explosive Al Jazeerainvestigation revealed this week the strong links between Bangladesh’s Prime Minister and a criminal family led by the head of the army who is using his post and the country’s security forces to extract bribes in return for state contracts and job positions.

Authorities in Dhaka have made a Sweden-based investigative journalism website inaccessible in Bangladesh soon after the outlet published a report alleging that one of the country’s most influential ministers was corrupt,Al Jazeera reported Thursday.

Few hours after he was dragged out of his room and beaten in the so-called ''torture cell,'' a Bangladesh student who criticized the state's recent water-sharing agreement with India on his Facebook page was found dead, Human Rights Watch reported Thursday. 

Applicants for land deeds in Bangladesh must pay substantial bribes, according to a report released Monday by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

The former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and opposition leader who was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing from an orphanage trust was granted on Monday a four months bail, according to her lawyer.

By Haroon Janjua

A court in Dhaka sent on Thursday the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh and opposition leader to prison for five years for stealing from an orphanage trust.

A Bangladeshi court has sentenced the owner of a nine-story building that collapsed in 2013 killing 1,100 people to three years in prison for corruption.

 U.S. Federal prosecutors are investigating North Korea’s role in the attempted theft of nearly US$ 1 billion from the Central Bank of Bangladesh in February 2016. 

The global cooperative SWIFT that transfers billions of dollars each day has experienced “a number of recent cyber incidents”, it said yesterday in a notice seen by Reuters.