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JICA-funded Jamuna Rail Bridge faces audit, ACC scrutiny

Serious allegations of corruption and large-scale financial irregularities have surfaced in the Jamuna Railway Bridge construction project, one of Bangladesh’s largest foreign-funded infrastructure ventures, casting a shadow over a project hailed as a milestone in national rail connectivity.

Audit reports and official documents from the Railways’ Audit Branch, the Foreign Aided Projects Audit Directorate (FAPAD) and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) point to alleged irregularities involving more than Tk 3,000 crore. The findings raise questions over non-transparent expenditure, inflated pricing, weak internal controls and repeated deviations from government financial rules and contractual conditions. This foreign-funded railway bridge...

LGED graft trail leads to Tk 300cr scandal

Allegations have surfaced that three influential figures within the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) turned the organisation into a hub of corruption and irregularities prior to the appointment of the current Chief Engineer (routine charge), Md. Anwar Hossain. The trio — former Chief Engineer Abdur Rashid Mia, his close associate and then Sub-Assistant Engineer Moshiul Alam, and self-styled media consultant Abu Fattah — reportedly built a powerful network of influence within LGED under the patronage of the recently ousted Awami League government.

Ousted Hasina lost ability to run country amid corruption

bdreports24 Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had lost her capability to run the country because of her prolonged misrule, oppression, repression and corruption. Bangla Academy president Prof Abul Quasem Fazlul Huq said on Sunday.
"The students and the mass people have ousted the fascist government through the July uprising being inspired with the spirit of Amar Ekushey," he said while addressing a 'shadow parliament' titled 'July uprising has proved that the spirit of Amar Akushey has not gone invain" at the ...
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