New crowdsourcing open ledger maps systemic illicit money demands
ChandaBD Launches for Anonymous Extortion Reporting
- Following 'Ghush.site', ChandaBD.com goes live for anonymous crowdsourced extortion logging
- Zero account registration required; integrated moderation scrubs personal metadata
- First-day public ledger logs nine separate complaints totaling over BDT 9.60 lakh
Expanding citizen-driven crowdsourcing initiatives, a new reporting platform named 'ChandaBD.com' (chandabd.com) has officially gone live to track and document informal extortion patterns across Bangladesh. Inspired by the earlier deployment of 'Ghush.site' (ghush.site), the interface establishes an open public data ledger to visualize extortion trends across sectors and administrative zones.
The platform prioritizes strict endpoint data privacy. Users are barred from inputting personal identifiers such as names, contact numbers, email addresses, or National Identity (NID) data, eliminating account registration requirements. Submitted reports pass through a moderation pipeline to filter personal vendettas, defamatory targeting, and sensitive identifiers before appending the entry to the searchable public ledger.
On 27 August, Thursday, within hours of deployment, the platform logged nine distinct submissions representing a cumulative BDT 9,60,700 in illicit financial demands. Early reports from Dhaka Division highlighted BDT 1,00,000 demanded from a construction site in Mirpur, BDT 10,000 for utility reconnections in Shewrapara, BDT 500 in excess trade license fees in Tongi, and BDT 200 in unauthorized municipal cleaning charges in Paltan.
The administrators emphasized that the open ledger does not represent an official legal tribunal or formal judicial evidence. Instead, it serves as an analytical transparency tool to help citizens, researchers, and administrators identify systemic extortion vulnerabilities across real estate, transport, retail, and public utility domains across all eight administrative divisions.
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