Security Researcher Goes Missing After Investigating Bangladesh Bank Cyber-Heist (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Tanvir Hassan Zoha, 34, security researcher, has gone missing just days after accusing Bangladesh's central bank officials of negligence, which facilitated the theft of over $81 million from the country's oversea accounts (hackers tried to steal $1 billion, but a typo stopped them). Zoha was apparently kidnapped this Wednesday after a jeep pulled over in front of his rickshaw. The friend that was with him was released hours later unharmed. When trying to contact police, family members were re-routed between police stations, and eventually gave up, contacting the media.

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Extraordinary rendition

[Enter the Shoggoth]

Many of us in the west will instinctively think of this as a developing world scenario but really how different is it to the way things are heading in the developed world?

Re:Extraordinary rendition

[Falconhell]

Heading? we have been there for years.
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Re:Extraordinary rendition

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, that's the difference between the weaponized bureaucracy of the US and developing nations.

- both have a central government that breaks its own laws when it suits them
- both have punitive legal systems that destroy the lives of people in the lower classes regardless of guilt
- both have law enforcement that view citizens as fodder to beat, shoot and incarcerate with no oversight

- one shoots people it finds to be a problem, the other makes them disappear into a prison for decades

The US government is essentially a violent third world dictatorship with a hastily applied veneer of lawfulness and access to eye-watering amounts of resources and manpower.

Re:Not very secure

[whoever57]

You would think that a security researcher would travel in a more secure way than by rickshaw.

You haven't been to India have you?

It was an auto-rickshaw, known elsewhere as a tuk-tuk.

Re:Not very secure

[radicimo]

To be precise, it was a "CNG auto-rickshaw" ... doubt he felt he was in any danger until the moment they whisked him off. From the run-around his family got by the local constabulary, it sounds as if the local police are part of the rendition, if no more than serving as an obstruction for someone else.

Re:Filthy Muslim third world shithole

[RabidReindeer]

No, When India gained independence, 2 provinces split off because they were Muslim-majority and didn't want to be under the control of the Hindu majority.

West Pakistan became simply Pakistan. East Pakistan became Bangladesh. It is a Muslim country, and it's one of the most corrupt nations in the world, but that's not because it's a muslim nation. It's because the wage scales and living conditions are at the level that the West is still trying to force its own workers to. It's a true capitalist's paradise, with minimal regulation which can be greased aside if you have enough capital and everyone is constantly looking for new and creative ways to be "entrepreneurial" without much respect for whether they're doing in in a legal manner or not.