Sohel Rana

Sohel Rana was a capitalist engaged in the garment industry in Bangladesh as a landlord. He was the owner of the building in the 2013 Savar building collapse on 24 April, 2013. After the collapse of the building Rana became a figure of opprobrium in Bangladesh and was arrested. As a scapegoat held responsible for an extremely exploitative national garment industry his prospects were dim. Before the collapse of the poorly constructed unsafe multi-story factory building Rana, who employed a gang of thugs to protect him and enforce his arrangements, rented the building to a variety of garment manufacturers which produced goods for the global garment trade using labor making as little as $40 a month.