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The boss of Revenue & Customs (HMRC), the government department overseeing a £10m inquiry into the Panama Papers, was a partner at a top City law firm that acted for Blairmore Holdings and other offshore companies named in the leak. Edward Troup, executive chair of HMRC since April, is a former partner at Simmons & Simmons, whose clients have included ...

Customs Intelligence has seized a Mercedes-Benz car worth Tk5 crore from Sylhet. The car was seized from the possession of London expatriate Abdul Malek after a 36-hour search drive on Saturday midnight. The car was missing since Friday night. An alert was also announced in Sylhet to find the car. Moinul Khan, director general of the Directorate of Customs Intelligence ...

Pressure is growing on cabinet ministers and senior figures from all parties to publish their tax returns. George Osborne is the latest politician to say he is considering following David Cameron’s lead in releasing details of his income and all tax paid. Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn and Lib Dem Tim Farron are both expected to do so but Nigel Farage says ...

Tata Steel has confirmed a deal to sell its Long Products Europe business, including its Scunthorpe plant, to UK-based investment firm Greybull Capital. The move will safeguard more than 4,000 jobs, but workers are being asked to accept a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements. Greybull said it was arranging a £400m investment package as part of the deal. ...

David Cameron’s mother gave him a £200,000 gift after his father’s death which could potentially avoid inheritance tax, his accounts show. In a first for a UK prime minister, Mr Cameron has released a summary of his tax returns from 2009- 15 as he tries to defuse a row over his finances. The two £100,000 payments were made a year ...

Minister Tobias Ellwood said: I am shocked and appalled by the murder of Nazimuddin Samad and strongly condemn this attack on free speech claimed by Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. Violence is never the answer. The right to life of all citizens of Bangladesh must be upheld, as must the right to freedom of expression and open debate. I ...

The bi-yearly General meeting and election of British-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries will be held on 2oth of April.  Candidates have already started submitting their candidacy and 13th April would be the last day for withdrawal of candidacy.  On 13th of April BBCCI will also finalise the nominations of the candidates. The board meeting will be held at BBCCI ...

‘When tough decisions have to be made, I’m not sure the wife of the prime minister needs a special advisor’, says MP Samantha Cameron has a personal stylist who is employed on a civil servant’s salary Reuters The salary of a “special adviser” who helps Samantha Cameron with her social diary and fashion style is being paid for by the ...

Chowdhury Muyeed, 51, and Asma Khanam, 47, to be sentenced on April 8  Essex couple set up fake companies to pay wages to Bangladeshi migrants ‘Sophisticated’ rouse allowed the migrants to claim housing benefit Accomplice Habibur Rahman, 36, also faces jail for similar con Judge Nigel Peters, QC, said it was ‘housing benefit fraud on a huge scale’   A married ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : EU authorities in Brussels will unveil long-awaited proposals to overhaul  European asylum rules, following the arrival of more than 1.1 million refugees and migrants last year. The rules, known as the Dublin regulation and dating back to the 1990s,  require refugees to seek asylum in the first country they arrive in. This system has been under ...