Corruption and scams have always been part and parcel of secular democracyin Bangladesh and all over the world. The involvement of the politicians into corruption has never been a matter of surprise for the people in Bangladesh. But it came as a shock for the Hasina government to see the four-year sentence of KaziPapul, alawmaker from Laxmipur-2 constituency,for human-trafficking, bribery and money-laundering by Kuwait’s criminal court.It is well-known that all the successive regimes in Bangladesh have institutionalized corruption, and ShekhHasina has taken it to the pinnacle. Thus, we see that she never cares about the public opinion against all-out corruption of her government. Hasina being the ‘mother of all corruptions’ has always raised, nurtured and empowered the degenerate elites. When one of the largest loan defaulters of the country has been selected as her Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser, it is no wonder that other ambitious corrupt people like M.P. Papul would also try their luck in making fortunes through government’s systematic corruption. Papul is not an isolated case here as he was already a director of a bank (NRB Commercial Bank) which was infamous for its loan scams. Hasina’s offer to the corrupt elites is clear; they will receive limitless impunity but cannot get caught - the cases of corruptions in quick rental power supply, the Padma Bridge project, and bank scandals are a few of the numerous examples. The fact is Hasina and her looting elites are the products of secular politics. As ‘godless’ secularism revolves only around material gains through expediency and deceit, it naturally attracts the corrupt and greedy people. So, unless this system systematically feeds corruption to its upholders, it will inevitably collapse.