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Damn, that's nutty. My parents always warned me that the Bangladesh they grew up in and knew is, in their words "a place where you have to be at least a little crooked" to survive (although they left in the 70s as soon as they could), and I know that the 80s was the era of Ershad's reign which was a particularly rough time. By the right people, does that mean in the government or organized crime or who knows?

>>yowlin+(OP)
I mean the police. My dad hated the bribery system. He tried to get a second phone line installed and gave up because the installer demanded a bribe. We left in 1989. Things are a bit better now. Not normal, exactly, but Sheikh Hasina wants to keep foreign investment flowing and is instilling some normalcy.