International| Pillage people
State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers
illustration of a protest, showing a crowd confronting a suited figure falling from an office desk on a ledge
Illustration: Daniel Stolle
BANK REGULATORS are seldom celebrities. But Ahsan Mansur, the governor of Bangladesh’s central bank, is an exception. Since he took over in August, after an autocratic prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was overthrown by protests, his job has been to untangle the criminal mess she left behind.