Staff Reporter
Adviser for the ministry of LGRD Mohammed Anwarul Iqbal said the cost of cyber crime was a burden on the developing countries and a law was necessary to combat the crime.
Quoting International Law News the adviser said cyber crime had grown to be larger than illicit drug sales worldwide and the analysis estimate that online fraud fetches 105 billion US dollars in 2007 alone.
He was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the first Regional Cyber Crime Seminar 2007 at the Dhaka Sheraton Hotel yesterday. [Read more]