Dhaka, March 29 -- In a far-reaching financial scandal, investigators have uncovered a brazen cross-border tax evasion scheme stretching from Dubai to Dhaka's upscale Gulshan district.

A father and son, dodged taxes by funnelling stone and coal imports through Dubai, all while concealing the true profits from the Bashundhara Residential Sports Complex and quietly buying up luxury flats and high-end cars in Gulshan.

The graft watchdog claims to have uncovered these details about Fakhrus Salehin Nahian, former director of the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), and his father, Fakhr Uddin Ali Ahmed, former president of the Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE), related to their tax and investment "irregularities"...