4 Feb 2021
The United Nations is calling for a full investigation into evidence of corruption and illegality involving the Bangladesh army, which was exposed during an investigation released by Al Jazeera on Monday.
The corruption involves Bangladesh’s Chief of Army Staff, General Aziz Ahmed, who is due to meet senior UN officials in New York next week.
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In All the Prime Minister’s Men, Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit revealed that Bangladesh’s military purchased sophisticated and highly intrusive mobile phone surveillance equipment from Israel, which Bangladesh military commanders claimed was “for one of the Army Contingents due to be deployed in the UN Peacekeeping Mission”.
Dhaka, which denies the claims made by Al Jazeera, has no formal diplomatic relations with Israel
Bangladesh s foreign minister has denied that his government had purchased the Israeli-made surveillance equipment (AFP) By Published date: 2 February 2021 14:37 UTC | Last update: 1 month ago
Bangladesh has been accused of buying Israeli-made surveillance equipment to spy on hundreds of people s mobile phones despite banning all trade with Israel.
Documented obtained by Al Jazeera s Investigation Unit revealed that Bangladesh s army acquired the P6 Intercept via a Bangkok-based middleman in 2018.
The P6 Intercept is a so-called IMSI-catcher, a type of technology often used by authorities to track attendees during protests via their mobile phones.
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