As much as Tk 12,633.2 crore was paid in bribes during the period of the interim government in service sectors, up 15.9 percent from 2023, found the Transparency International Bangladesh’s (TIB) latest National Household Survey.

A section of unscrupulous BRTA officials and staffers, policemen, transport associations, staffers of city corporations and municipalities, and people affiliated with political parties get shares of the bribes and extorted money

A representative of Zakir Hossain, state minister for primary education, has returned Tk 9.5 lakh allegedly taken in bribes from a man seeking to be a primary school teacher.

A death is an accident only when it occurs in spite of all logical, scientific and experience-based steps taken to prevent it.

In a country where corrupt practices dominate traffic rules and laws, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has prepared a draft law under which police would not require any warrant to arrest anyone for violation of traffic rules. Police lodge around 70,000 cases a month and there is a huge backlog of cases. Will this new law, if passed, help the situation?

Two police officials of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station in Dhaka are suspended for allegedly detaining three employees of a recruiting agency and forcing them to pay bribes.

Two Fifa vice-presidents are arrested in a dawn raid at a Swiss hotel on suspicion of accepting millions of dollars of bribes.

Women are paying more bribes than men for availing services at land offices, a Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) report says.

Former Fifa vice president Jack Warner has said in a TV address that he will reveal all he knows about corruption at the world football body.