2014 - Best Investigative Journalism in South Asia
The news is about the largest corruption case in telecommunication sector in Bangladesh. Influential people belonging to the ruling Awami League party had got nine licenses to set up IGW (international gateway) companies using political influence. They gobbled up government money. The companies were doing business with the licenses they had got either in the name of former health minister AFM Ruhal Haq, ex-state minister for local government and rural development ministry Jahangir Kabir Nanak, state minister for home Shamsul Haq Tuku, Awami League leaders and MPs Shamim Osman, Bahauddin Nasim and Nasrul Hamid, and ruling party's ally Jatiya Party leader MP Ziauddin Bablu and the family members of the ministers and leaders. The news was published just before the national election on January 05, 2014. After published this news, people were surprised a lot regarding this huge corruption and it became the talk of the country as well as created a huge debate among the mass people.The opposition political party BNP had protested against this corruption. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has already stopped their operations cancelling their licenses and filed a case against those companies at lower court of Bangladesh. The case is under trail.
