Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has called for a united international front and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle the rising tide of digital fraud and global scams. The minister made the appeal on Sunday while speaking as a panelist at a high-level roundtable during the "Global Fraud Summit 2026" in the Austrian capital. The media release said the minister underscored the growing challenges Bangladesh faces from digital scams, multi-level marketing (MLM) Ponzi schemes, and corporate corruption, reports bdnews24.com. Citing data from Global Financial Integrity (GFI), the minister noted that an average of $8.27 billion was laundered from Bangladesh annually through trade mis-invoicing between 2009 and 2018. The home minister is leading a five-member delegation at the two-day summit.

Source: bd News24 March 16, 2026 20:02 UTC