US may return bribe money involving Zia’s son to Dhaka

September 6th, 2009 DHAKA - M. Saifur Rahman, a former Bangladesh finance minister, died in a road accident Saturday. Three members of his staff also died when the driver of his sports utility vehicle lost control while travelling from Sylhet to the national capital, a media report.

August 23rd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh has decided not to recognise Kosovo as an independent Balkan state, rejecting a request from the US. Dhaka has made it clear that it would like to keep away (from the Kosovo issue), New Age newspaper said Sunday quoting Foreign Secretary Mirajul Quayes.

August 7th, 2009 2 plead guilty to offering bribe in AfghanistanALEXANDRIA, Va. — Two men have pleaded guilty to offering a $1 million bribe to a U.S.

July 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - A former speaker of Bangladesh parliament and two former officials may be asked to return Taka 17.1 million ($285,000) that a parliamentary committee has said were "misappropriated" by them. Former speaker Jamiruddin Sircar, his deputy Akhtar Hamid Siddiqui and chief whip of the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) Handaker Delwar Hossain, drew the money as medical allowances and additional fuel allowances "ignoring the law", an all-party parliamentary probe committee has ruled.

May 22nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an inspector of Customs and Central Excise for accepting a bribe of Rs.8,000, according to an official statement Friday. 'Vimil Kumar Sirohi, who is posted in the office of Commissioner of Central Excise at New Delhi here, was arrested Thursday for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs.8,000 from the complainant,' it said.

May 5th, 2009 DHAKA - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Tuesday handed over to Dhaka compensation worth $1.43 million for 879 Bangladeshi children who once had been used as camel jockeys in the Gulf kingdom. A UAE government delegation called on Bangladesh Home Minister Sahara Khatun and handed over to her the compensation package, a home ministry official said.

April 22nd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has demanded that the Sheikh Hasina government secure a court order before enforcing a notice to evict their chief and former prime minister Khaleda Zia from her Dhaka cantonment residence. One of Zia's aides demanded that the government secure a court order before evicting her from her residence for which a 15 day notice was served last Sunday.

March 19th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two engineers of the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) for accepting a bribe of Rs.100,000, an official statement said Wednesday. The CBI acted on a complaint of a shareholder of a real estate firm.

February 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh has sought from the US the money that was allegedly stashed away by opposition leader Khaleda Zia's businessman son in a telecom deal signed during her tenure. Finance Minister A.M.A.

February 2nd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday arrested a Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official here for accepting a bribe of Rs.100,000. 'We arrested A.S.

February 2nd, 2009 DHAKA - Dhaka Warriors, an Indian Cricket League (ICL) franchise comprising Bangladeshi cricketers, have alleged that the Bangladesh Cricket Board has been trying to block them from practising at a rented city ground. The BCB has barred the Dhaka Warriors from using the grounds and practice facilities owned by it and its affiliated organisations.

January 15th, 2009 DHAKA - The United States has told the new government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that Bangladesh needs to work with neighbouring countries to fight terrorism. 'Terrorism is an issue confronting both the governments in Dhaka and Washington.

January 13th, 2009 DHAKA - A team of the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the $200 million money laundering scandal pertaining to a Siemens telecom deal that implicates both sons of Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia, a media report said Wednesday. The erstwhile caretaker government had moved against Zia's younger businessman son Arafat Rahman Koko last month after it received specific information from the Singapore government.

January 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - An assistant commissioner of income tax in Bangalore has been arrested for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs.200,000, a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) statement said here Wednesday. An income tax assessee had lodged a complaint with the CBI that the accused, K.

December 22nd, 2008 DHAKA - In a scandal that could be embarrassing in the run-up to the parliamentary polls, former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia's son has been accused of facilitating the entry of telecom giant Siemens in the country's mobile phone network for monetary gains. As the international media ran reports about how the corporate giant and its subsidiaries bribed government officials to win contracts in countries across the world, Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko's name came up in the Bangladesh part.