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Mohammad Suman

A Senior Staff Correspondent at The Daily Star, Mohammad Suman specializes in investigative reporting on ports, customs, trade, and financial irregularities, with a keen focus on corruption, governance, and economic affairs.

global fuel shortage risk during summer

BPC panel against fuel imports by private sector

1 September 2026
Allowing private companies to directly import and market refined petroleum products could lead to revenue losses, artificial shortages, hoarding, price volatility, substandard fuel and risks to national energy security, said a BPC committee.
1 September 2026
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Sugar prices surge amid gas crisis, India’s return to imports

24 August 2026
Sugar prices are rising as the ongoing gas crisis is curbing production at local refineries, which had stepped up output after three major suppliers exited the market.
24 August 2026
ghost exports Bangladesh

Phantom exports worth Tk 24cr surface

16 August 2026
At least 29 consignments logged as exports, while officials allege raw materials were sold locally and incentives claimed
16 August 2026
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Laldia terminal construction to begin soon

14 August 2026
Construction of the long-awaited Laldia Container Terminal at Chattogram port is set to move forward, with the government scheduled to lay the foundation stone for the $550 million project on August 30, in partnership with Denmark.
14 August 2026
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation cash crisis

Profit streak to cash crisis: BPC seeks Tk 18,699cr lifeline

11 August 2026
Citing the rapid depletion of its cash reserves, BPC said continued losses could affect its ability to open letters of credit (LCs) for future fuel imports, according to minutes of a BPC board meeting in July.
11 August 2026
Chattogram Port expansion and export growth

Logistics woes stand in way of Ctg export hub

1 August 2026
Economic, free trade zones, terminals, deep-sea port are reshaping region
1 August 2026
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Two Ctg exporters face legal action over forged import documents

28 July 2026
To curb abuse, the commissionerate has imposed 10 compliance conditions, including mandatory stock verification and supervised fabric cutting
28 July 2026
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From veggies to eggs, prices climb sharply

25 July 2026
Under a gloomy afternoon sky at Karwan Bazar, Abdul Barek stood in front of a vegetable shop, quietly asking the price of one item after another. The 50-year-old finally settled on half a kilogram of okra.
25 July 2026
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7 killed as gas blast rips apart Ctg house

Julekha Khanam Farzana told her younger son Atifur Rahman that she would come back to pick him up from school after dropping his elder brother at tutor’s house in Chattogram city’s Patharghata area.
17 November 2019
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Soaring Onion Prices: Shady traders at it again

Chattogram-based Alam Traders received a consignment of 59,880 kilogrammes of Burmese onions at Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf land port on November 11. The importer paid about Tk 43 for each kg, show its documents.
16 November 2019

Rallying to protect communal harmony

Teachers and students of Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Muinul Islam Madrasa, popularly known as Hathazari Madrasa, saved a temple from vandalism when a group of people started throwing brick chunks at it on Sunday evening.
21 October 2019
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Dice rolling in thru’ legal cracks

Taking advantage of loopholes in laws and policies, importers brought in at least five consignments of gambling equipment. Even though a 152-year-old law prohibits gambling and the constitution assigns the state to “adopt effective measures to prevent
25 September 2019
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Money Laundering Incidents: Ctg customs not doing much

The Chattogram Customs House has been sitting on incidents of money laundering for years and only recently filed two such cases a year after being asked to do so.
19 September 2019
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Toxic animal feed still coming in

The Chattogram Customs House has recently seized 2,717 tonnes of imported fish and poultry feed containing hazardous ingredients like meat and bone meal (MBM), animal bones and by-products of pigs, which can cause cancer in humans.
17 September 2019
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Port signature forgers let off bypassing law

The 22 clearing and forwarding agents and importers guilty of forging signatures and stamp seals of government officials in the past
14 September 2019
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Caught in the web of con artists

It was a dream come true for Milon Chakraborty, a resident of Lalmonirhat district. For the last one year and a half, he had been pursuing a lifelong dream of having a job at Chattogram Customs.
12 September 2019
Election Comission

National Identity Cards: At least 73 dubious applications in EC database

At least 73 suspicious applications were uploaded to the Election Commission database for issuing national identity cards, a government committee has found while probing the forged NID card of a Rohingya woman in Chattogram.
3 September 2019
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Ctg Liquor Haul: Port, Customs at odds over storage

The Chattogram Customs House has yet to start making an inventory of the consignments seized at the port on July 23 on charge of containing large quantities of foreign liquor.
1 August 2019
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Six customs men ‘helped’ dodge tax

The Chattogram Custom House found evidence of corruption against six of its officials who allegedly helped an importer dodge taxes on consignments released from the Chattogram airport earlier this month.
30 July 2019
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Tk 790cr goods sold locally misusing bonded facility

Goods worth Tk 790 crore, which were imported under the duty-free bonded warehouse facility, were sold in the local market by more than 100 garments and accessories factories in Chattogram in the past five years.
25 July 2019
Chattogram port’s anomalies

Huge haul of liquor in Ctg

Chattogram Customs House seized a huge consignment of alcohol, imported as capital machinery for a power plant, from three barges in the Karnaphuli river on Tuesday night. The consignment was offloaded on to the barges from a mother vessel from China.
24 July 2019
Chattogram customs revenue collection in FY24

Chattogram Port: Tk 10,000cr goods left abandoned

Goods worth around Tk 10,000 crore have been left abandoned by importers at the Chattogram Port for the past five and half years, depriving customs of revenue and leading to a space crisis.
22 July 2019

Mostafa Group eyes a comeback

Debt-ridden Mostafa Group wants to pay back Tk 1,500 crore loans with around three dozen lenders taking advantage of the central bank’s rescheduling facility, as it looks to make a comeback.
21 July 2019
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Cigarette maker dodges Tk 62cr VAT: customs

International Tobacco Industries Ltd, a Chattogram-based cigarette manufacturer, has dodged Tk 62 crore in value added tax by importing 169 tonnes of raw materials under a fake company, according to a probe report.
18 July 2019

Apparel maker dodges Tk 57 lakh tax

An apparel company has evaded Tk 57 lakh tax in allegedly connivance with customs officials in Chattogram by producing forged bank statements while getting its cargo released from the port, customs found.
11 July 2019
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Shah Amanat Airport: Goods released on forged papers

A clearing and forwarding (C&F) agent took delivery of nine consignments of various goods from Chattogram’s Shah Amanat International Airport in December last year allegedly using forged documents.
23 June 2019
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Sugar price rises overnight in port city

Sugar prices have gone up by Tk 120 per mound in the Khatunganj-Chaktai market, the hub for wholesale of commodities in Chattogram, soon after the proposed budget for 2019-20 was placed on Thursday.
15 June 2019

Three realtors in Ctg dodge Tk 15cr in VAT

The Chattogram Customs, Excise and VAT Commissionerate has found that three real estate companies dodged about Tk 15 crore in
12 June 2019

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