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Bangladesh |
Banglabanks asked to freeze corruption suspects' accounts |
2007-03-03 |
![]() The 53 included 50 politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen the Anti-Corruption Commission named earlier this month in a list of graft suspects. The new military-backed interim government has already detained 37 high-profile figures with links to both the main political parties on corruption charges. The governmentÂ’s anti-graft drive is aimed at cleaning up politics and holding credible elections after polls scheduled for January 22 were cancelled amid rigging allegations. President Iajuddin Ahmed scrapped the polls amid escalating violence on January 11. He also imposed emergency rule and stepped down as head of the previous caretaker government. |
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