Finding G: The general with a moustache

Finding G: The general with a moustache

At a meeting in London in September 2015, the fabled “Mr. G” was introduced to senior executives of Oberthur, a French technology company.Although they were meeting for the first time, their collaboration on Bangladesh’s national identity (NID) card project had been quietly set in motion long before. Mr. G, the man who stood to pocket tens of millions in bribes, tied together a multi-layered, tightly-knit network. The London rendezvous took plac…