Bangladeshi pleads guilty in FBI bribery incident

A Bangladesh national has pleaded guilty to bribing an FBI special agent for access to confidential documents concerning a prominent Bangladeshi politician, reports bdnews24.com.
Rizve Ahmed, aka 'Caesar' (35), and his acquaintance Johannes Thaler, (51), pleaded guilty to the charge in a federal court in New York Friday.
Robert Lustyik began scheming in Sept 2011 while working for the FBI's counterintelligence squad in its White Plain's office in New York. The scheme lasted until March 2012, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.
"Ahmed sought confidential law enforcement information, including a Suspicious Activity Report, pertaining to a Bangladeshi political figure affiliated with a political party opposing Ahmed's views."
Thaler was Lustyik's childhood friend, and Ahmed, a Bangladeshi, was Thaler's acquaintance, and they both live in Connecticut and worked in a retailer store. The complaint identifies Ahmed's intended victim as 'Individual 1'.
Ahmed paid at least $1,000 to the two other men for information that included a suspicious activity report handed over to him by Thaler at a Danbury food court in Dec 9, 2011.
"Thaler and Ahmed admitted that Ahmed requested the confidential information to help him locate and harm his intended victim and others associated with the victim."