The American prison system just let a Nigerian guy go after six years inside. Invictus Obi Okeke, a thirty-eight-year-old businessman, was serving time for a massive fraud scheme. He scammed American businesses out of about eleven million dollars. His method involved hacking, specifically stealing login info for a company named Unatrac Holding Limited. That firm exports Caterpillar equipment. He used that access to intercept emails and divert payments to himself. Federal agents caught him at Dulles International Airport in Virginia as he tried to fly back to Nigeria. He got a ten-year sentence but walked out early, likely due to a sentencing reform law from the previous administration.
Before all this, Okeke had a very different...
The court took a statement from the auto rickshaw driver who was with Sharif Osman Hadi when he got shot. The driver, Kamal Hossain, was brought before the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate, Md Jamshed Alam, by the police. They requested his testimony be officially recorded because he witnessed the attack directly, calling it necessary for a proper investigation.
Hadi was a prospective independent candidate for the Dhaka eight constituency and a spokesperson for Inqilab Moncho. He was riding in a battery-powered rickshaw on Box Culvert Road in the Paltan area when it happened. Two people on a motorcycle pulled up and fired at him. He was badly wounded, taken first to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for surgery, then moved to Evercare...
Three people tied directly to the main suspect in that political murder have given confessions in court. The wife, the girlfriend, and the brother-in-law of Faisal Karim Masud all admitted some involvement in the killing of Sharif Osman Hadi. Their names are Saheda Parvin Samia, Maria Akter Lima, and Wahid Ahmed Shipu. Two separate magistrate courts in Dhaka recorded their statements. All three were then sent back to jail. In the same hearing, another suspect named Aminul Islam Raju got a five-day remand order. Police say Raju helped Faisal hide near the border after the shooting.
A prosecutor named Mia Mohammad Ashis Bin Hasan confirmed these developments. The court run by Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain...
A court in Dhaka has ordered a ballistics test on evidence from the killing of Inqilab Moncho spokesperson Sharif Osman Hadi. The order came from Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Awlad Hossain Mohammad Junaid after investigators requested it. He specifically told the ballistics branch of the CID to examine the recovered items and give a full report. The evidence includes spent cartridges and objects believed to be bullets. Police collected these from the crime scene.
The victim, also known as Osman Gani, was thirty-three years old. He was shot near the DR Tower next to the Bijoy Nagar Box Culvert Road in the Paltan police jurisdiction. The attack happened after Friday prayers. According to the case details, he was walking from...
Cops picked up another guy connected to that shooting of the Inqilab Moncho spokesperson, Sharif Osman Hadi. The arrest went down at a residential hotel in the Adabor area of Dhaka. This guy is a 32-year-old named Himon Rahman Shikder. The police say he is tight with Alamgir, the motorcycle rider who transported the actual shooter, Faisal Karim Masud. Authorities also grabbed a gun during the bust.
A Deputy Commissioner with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Mohammad Talebur Rahman, gave those details. The local station chief from Adabor, an officer named Md Ziaur Rahman, told reporters that this Himon character was involved with the Jubo League. That is the youth organization linked to the Awami League, which is currently banned. The...
Well, here's a take from across the border. A former Indian high commissioner to Bangladesh, Riva Ganguly Das, just weighed in on the whole Tarique Rahman situation. She told an Indian news outlet that his comeback to Dhaka might actually calm things down politically over there. She called his return a big deal for the political scene.
Her reasoning was pretty straightforward. She pointed out that Rahman has been running the BNP from afar for years, especially with Khaleda Zia being sick. He kept the party together online, she said, managing it directly even through digital means. According to her, he started pulling the party's support base together right after the last government fell. Now, with Bangladesh dealing with a lot of...
So the BNP's acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, just told a crowd that keeping things peaceful and orderly is the absolute top priority right now. He was speaking at this big welcome rally out in Purbachal, which is basically a suburb of Dhaka. His whole pitch was about how everyone needs to stay patient and stick together. He framed it as the only way to deal with what he called ongoing conspiracies against the country.
He told the assembled party members and supporters that regular people in Bangladesh are trying to get their basic democratic freedoms back. They want a voice again. He said the goal was to rebuild the nation into a safer place for everyone. The guy also threw in some historical shoutouts, mentioning the fight for...
Okay, the big thing just happened over in Bangladesh. The BNP's acting chairman, Tarique Rahman, finally came back to the country after being gone for over seventeen years. His plane, a Biman Bangladesh flight, touched down first at the airport in Sylhet, the Osmani International Airport. It then landed at the main hub, Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. A bunch of the party's top brass from its Standing Committee were waiting for him inside a restricted area of the airport, what they call the red zone, to say hello.
He stepped off the plane and gave a wave to the people who had gathered. Once inside, the welcomes got more personal. The first guy he hugged was the party's Secretary General, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. He...
The acting chairman of the BNP, Tarique Rahman, has landed in Dhaka. His flight from Sylhet touched down at the main international airport mid-morning. This follows his initial arrival in Sylhet earlier that day from London, ending an absence from the country lasting over seventeen years. He was accompanied by his wife, Zubaida Rahman, and their daughter, Zaima Rahman.
Senior party leaders, including Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, gathered at the airport's VIP lounge well before the landing to greet him. Supporters had been positioned around the airport area since dawn, displaying party flags and banners along nearby roads. Law enforcement agencies tightened security throughout the vicinity, monitoring the gathered...
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