Bangladesh books Sheikh Hasina, others in three cases
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Dhaka: The anti-corruption commission in Bangladesh booked ousted Prime Minster Sheikh Hasina and some of her family members, including an MP of the British Parliament, on Monday, Agence France-Presse reported.
Those booked were the former Bangladeshi prime minister, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana’s son Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby, and daughters Azmina Siddiq Ruponti and Tulip Rizwana Siddiq. The last person is the treasury economic secretary in the British government.
The cases were that the accused used their influence with officials at the agency that is responsible for civic development in Bangladesh's capital and secure lucrative plots of land in the capital’s diplomatic zone.
The cases named Rehana, Bobby, and Ruponti are the key accused, while Hasina and Tulip Rizwana Siddiq are the co-accused. Further, officials from Dhaka’s civic development agency and the officials in the housing ministry were booked.
According to the director-general of the anti-corruption commission, Akhter Hossain, Tulip Siddiq influenced Sheikh Hasina to secure the plots in question. For this, the committee has incriminating evidence, it is learned.
It was on August 5 last year that the ousted PM fled to India after student protests broke heavily in the nation against her and her party, the Awami League government. It was she who remained the PM of the country for the past 16 years.
On August 8, Nobel laureate economist Muhammad Yunus took over the helm of the country as an interim leader. Later, the authorities in Bangladesh file multiple cases against Hasina, accusing her of corruption and human rights violations.
In December last year, the commission started investigating allegations that Hasina’s family embezzled $5 billion, or over Rs 43,287 crore, through an allegedly overpriced Russian-funded nuclear power plant, Scroll reported.