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TIB says interim administration failed to take stand against corruption

Transparency International Bangladesh chief Iftekharuzzaman has said the interim government failed to take a stand against corruption. Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of the local chapter of Berlin-based Transparency International, a global anti-corruption organisation, presented topics that t

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TIB says interim administration failed to take stand against corruption

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Dec 07, 2025 21:53
Updated :
Dec 07, 2025 21:53

Transparency International Bangladesh chief Iftekharuzzaman has said the interim government failed to take a stand against corruption.

Iftekharuzzaman, executive director of the local chapter of Berlin-based Transparency International, a global anti-corruption organisation, presented topics that the organisation believe should be accommodated in political parties’ manifestos ahead of the next parliamentary election.

Speaking at a media briefing on Sunday, he said: “TIB does not have data on whether corruption in the country has increased or decreased after Aug 5. We are working on comparative information. However, corruption has continued. We have seen examples of it since the afternoon of August 5.”

“TIB cannot say corruption has reduced in the country after Aug 5,” said Iftekharuzzaman.

A section is engaged in corruption through factionalism, land grabbing and extortion, he said. The quarter is abusing political power and governance space to serve its own interest.

Iftekharuzzaman added that there was no denying the fact that the interim government had missed the opportunity to take a strong stand against corruption.

He called on political parties to form an independent bank commission.

The TIB presented 52 recommendations at the press conference. It recommended freeing the bank and financial sector from factional and family control by removing individuals with political and business interests from the boards and management of all commercial banks and Bangladesh Bank.

It also demanded that perpetrators of past fraud, irregularities and corruption be brought to book.

Iftekharuzzaman said the legal framework alone was not enough to ensure transparency and accountability in the sector.

He said the majority of businessmen have suffered losses over the last 15 years.

He pointed out that the government failed to implement the reform commission proposal to incorporate corruption in the business sector in the ACC schedule.​

 

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President Shahabuddin feeling 'humiliated', wants to resign after February election

Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February’s parliamentary election.

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President Shahabuddin feeling 'humiliated', wants to resign after February election
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Updated: 11 Dec 2025, 21: 31

Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin administers oath-taking ceremony of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as the country’s head of the interim government in Bangladesh at the Bangabhaban, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 8 August 2024.Reuters

Bangladeshi President Mohammed Shahabuddin said on Thursday he plans to step down midway through his term after February’s parliamentary election, telling Reuters he has felt humiliated by the interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus.

As head of state, Shahabuddin is commander-in-chief of the armed forces, but the role is largely ceremonial, and executive power rests with the prime minister and cabinet of the mainly Muslim country of 173 million people.

However, his position gained prominence when a student-led uprising forced long-time premier Sheikh Hasina to flee to New Delhi in August 2024, leaving him as the last remaining constitutional authority after parliament was dissolved.

Shahabuddin, 75, had been elected unopposed for a five-year term in 2023 as a nominee of Hasina’s Awami League party, which has been barred from contesting the February 12 election.

Bangladesh president says Yunus sidelined him

“I am keen to leave. I am interested to go out,” he said in a WhatsApp interview from his official residence in Dhaka, in what he said was his first media interview since taking office.

“Until elections are held, I should continue,” Shahabuddin said. “I am upholding my position because of the constitutionally held presidency.”

The president said Yunus had not met him for nearly seven months, his press department had been taken away and, in September, his portraits were removed from Bangladeshi embassies around the world.

“There was the portrait of the president, picture of the president in all consulates, embassies and high commissions, and this has been eliminated suddenly in one night,” he said. “A wrong message goes to the people that perhaps the president is going to be eliminated. I felt very much humiliated.”

Shahabuddin said he had written to Yunus about the portraits, but no action was taken. "My voice has been stifled," he added.

Yunus’ press advisers did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

President in contact with army chief

The president said he was in regular touch with Army Chief General Waker-uz-Zaman, whose troops stood aside in August 2024 amid deadly protests against Hasina, sealing the fate of the veteran politician. Shahabuddin said Zaman had made it clear he had no intention of grabbing power.

Bangladesh has a history of military rule, but Zaman has said he wants democracy to return.

Shahabuddin said that, although some student protesters had initially demanded that he resign, no political party had asked him to do so in recent months.

Opinion polls suggest the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of former prime minister Khaleda Zia and the hardline Jamaat-e-Islami will be the frontrunners to form the next government. They were part of a coalition that ruled between 2001 and 2006.

Asked if Hasina, who had governed for 20 years, had tried to contact him after fleeing, Shahabuddin declined to answer. He said he had been independent since becoming president, not affiliated to any party.​