The number of cases against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reached 49, including 40 for murder, seven for crimes against humanity and genocide, one for abduction and one for an attack on a BNP procession. Five more murder cases were filed on Thursday (Aug. 22). In Dhaka, Hasina and 46 others were sued for the killing of a street hawker Shahabul Islam Shaon during protests in Ashulia on August 4.

Another case was filed in Dhaka against Hasina and 32 others over the death of 12-grader Abdullah Bin Jahid at the Airport area on August 5. Hasina and 67 others were accused in a case over the killing of Shahriar Hossain Rokon, 23, in the city's Mohammadpur on July 19. In Narsingdi, a murder case was filed against Hasina and 81 others over the killing of a businessman Azizul Islam during the anti-discrimination student movement on July 19. In Bogura, Hasina and 76 others were sued in a case filed over the abduction and killing of a union level BNP leader Shah Alam Sujan in the district's Shibganj upazila in 2018.

The Bangladesh Bank formed a new board of directors for crisis-hit Islami Bank Bangladesh, appointing five independent directors at the Shariah-based lender. Md Obayed Ullah Al Masud, former managing director of Rupali Bank, has been appointed as an independent director and chairman of the board, according to a letter issued by the central bank. The central bank constituted the new board just a day after it dissolved the previous board of the country's largest private sector bank, which became mired in irregularities after the S Alam Group seized control.

Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur said their first initiatives will be aimed at bringing stability to banks. "We will not run the bank with the boards we nominated forever," he said. Mansur added that they are going to form a banking commission, which will inspect all weak banks and identify their problems. The decision to remove the previous board on August 21 freed Islami Bank from the S Alam Group's grip.

The central bank appointed an administrator to Nagad amid allegations of irregularities in the mobile financial service (MFS) provider's operations and dealings. During a press conference at Nagad's headquarters in Dhaka, its newly-appointed administrator Badiuzzaman Dider said the current board and the post of CEO had been abolished through the appointment of an administrator. Nagad, without any MFS licence, has been operating under the postal department with approval from the central bank.

The Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) owns Nagad and it has now been taken over as a government organisation, Governor Ahsan H Mansur said. "Since it was shown as a postal department organisation, and the post office has a large share in it, the government has taken control of it on behalf of the BPO," he said at a press briefing at the central bank headquarters. He added that the process of the digital bank's licensing would be reviewed.

The advisory council of the interim government decided to establish a commission to investigate the enforced disappearances. The commission, once formed, will investigate the reasons behind enforced disappearances and identify those responsible for these disappearances. The decision was taken at a meeting of the advisory council of the interim government at the state guest house Jamuna with Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus in the chair.

Syeda Rizwana Hasan, adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, briefed the media about the decision. On the same day, the National Human Rights Commission demanded full disclosure on information about secret detention cells in which many of the victims of enforced disappearances were kept, including their current status, the identities of its administrators, and those responsible for establishing them.