Over the past two decades, Bangladesh’s two most powerful political dynasties have faced starkly different scrutiny when it comes to corruption. While Begum Khaleda Zia’s sons — Tarique Rahman and Arafat “Koko” Rahman — have been the subjects of internationally documented money-laundering cases, the current in...
The period 2001-06 is considered as one of the darkest chapters in the history of Bangladesh during which period large-scale corruption flourished with direct patronage from the highest level of the kleptocratic 4-Party Alliance Government led by Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). During the reign of the then Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, the cor...