Documented Millions: How Khaleda Zia’s Sons Left a Global Trail of Money Laundering — and Why the Same Evidence Is Missing Against Sheikh Hasina’s Family

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...

Corruption of Zia Family and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)

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...