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Bangladeshi bribed ex-FBI agent for info

Star Report
Three people, including a Bangladeshi and a former FBI agent, have been charged in the Southern District of New York with engaging in a bribery scheme to secure confidential information about a prominent Bangladeshi politician.
The accused Bangladeshi, Rizve Ahmed, 34, also known as Caesar, had sought confidential information about the Bangladeshi politician to locate and harm him/her and others associated with him/her, according to a news release of the US Department of Justice.
The release did not reveal the name of the politician, whom it identified as "a prominent citizen of Bangladesh who was affiliated with an opposing political party".
In the complaint, Robert Lustyik, 50, a former FBI agent
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in White Plains Resident Agency, is accused of conspiring with his friend, Johannes Thaler, 49, of soliciting cash payments from Thaler's friend, Rizve, in exchange for confidential, internal law enforcement documents and information that Lustyik could access by virtue of his position at the FBI.
Rizve and Thaler were arrested on Friday. They were scheduled to be presented before a federal court in White Plains later that day.
Lustyik is currently detained in connection with an unrelated indictment in US District Court for the District of Utah, where he will be initially presented on the charges in the complaint
Lustyik, Thaler, and Rizve are each charged in a four-count complaint. The first one charges all three with conspiring to bribe a public official; the second charges Lustyik and Thaler with soliciting and receiving bribes; the third charges Rizve with bribing a public official and offering to bribe a public official; and the
fourth charges Lustyik with unlawfully disclosing a Suspicious Activity Report.
If convicted, Ahmed, of Fairfield County, faces a maximum of 20 years in prison while Lustyik, of Westchester County, 25 years and Thaler, of Fairfield County, 20 years.
According to the complaint, between September 2011 and March 2012, Lustyik, Thaler and Rizve engaged in a bribery scheme on behalf of Rizve.
As part of the scheme, Lustyik and Thaler exchanged text messages including about how to put pressure on Rizve to pay them additional money for the information.
In one of his texts, Lustyik told Thaler, "We need to push [Rizve] for this meeting and get that 40 gs [G=l,000] quick ... I will talk us i nto getting the cash ... I will work my magic ... we rsoooooo close."
Thaler responded, "I know. It's all right there in front of us. Pretty soon we'll be having lunch in our oceanfront restaurant... ”
On another occasion in or about late January 2012, upon
learning that Rizve was considering using a different source to obtain the information, Lustyik text messaged Thaler, "1 want to kill [Rizve] ... I hung my [**•*] out the window n we got nothing?... Tell [Rizve], I've got [the Bangladeshi politician's) number and I am pissed ... I will put a wire on n get [Rizve and his associates] to admit they want |a Bangladeshi politician] offed n we sell it to [Bangladeshi politician]."
The complaint says Lustyik and Thaler accepted at least $1,000 from Rizve in exchange for confidential FBI information, including a Suspicious Activity Report.
It also alleges that Lustyik and Thaler schemed to obtain monthly cash bribes from Rizve, in increments of tens of thousands of dollars, in exchange for the provision of additional confidential law enforcement information about the individual in Bangladesh and for assistance in having criminal charges against a Bangladeshi political figure dismissed.