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A ruling party member of parliament was also named as one of beneficiaries of the casino club who allegedly received 1.8 billion taka ($21.2 million) but the police officer who made allegation was later withdrawn from his assigned workplace. Since the Awami League took office after winning elections in 2008 held under a military-controlled government, influential leaders of the Jubo League and Chhatra League have reportedly been found to have engaged in extortion, bid-rigging, and underworld activities. Once again coming to power through controversial elections in 2018, the party incumbents and their sycophants called such actions an effort to clean house, although earlier drives against corruption and drugs turned into fiascos, as alleged godfathers of both corruption and drug trafficking mostly remained untouched. Political economy. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) blasted the ruling party for the “misdeeds of the ruling quarters” that are being exposed through the drive but also expressed skepticism that it would continue. “The more such drives continue, the more the Awami league, Jubo League, and Chhatra league leaders will be exposed,” BNP leader Nazrul Islam Khan was quoted as saying by the media. Government ministers have started blaming the BNP -- which last ruled the country from 2001 to 2006 -- for the casino culture, often calling casino operators “infiltrators” into the Awami League fold. Privately, some ruling party leaders admitted their ignorance about the drive and said they regretted that politics in Bangladesh no longer belongs to politicians. Imtiaz said that casinos were under the surveillance of the authorities who, he said, missed no target during the crackdown. “The timing was carefully chosen since there is no election issue now and what was allowed to happen is part and parcel of the accumulation of capital in a brute manner,” he said. Around $6 billion was siphoned off from Bangladesh in a single year (2015), according to Washington-based Global Financial Integrity. In its index over the past two decades, Berlin-based Transparency International has ranked Bangladesh as one of the world’s most corrupt countries.