When the empire outlasts its founder’s wisdom

Family businesses built Bangladesh's private sector. Walk through any major industry -- garments, banking, real estate, telecoms -- you will find that the dominant players trace their origins to a single founder. That is the story of how economies get built.The problem is what comes next. In the typical Bangladeshi...

Stolen-asset recovery: Bangladesh has the machinery, but not the vehicle

As of 25 March 2026, courts in Bangladesh had ordered the freezing or attachment of assets totaling Tk 70,446 crore - Tk 57,168 crore inside the country, Tk 13,278 crore abroad. The figures were reported by the Prime Minister to the Jatiya Sangsad on April 22. Six days later, the...