The Excessive Court docket has issued a ruling on the deliver of no activity of the Anti-Corruption Rate in investigating allegations of $5 billion embezzlement from the Rooppur Nuclear Energy Plant (RNPP) by ancient prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family.
The Excessive Court docket bench of Justice Fahmida Quader and Justice Mubbina Asaf, issued the rule of thumb this day (15 December) after a preliminary listening to on a writ petition in this matter.
Barrister Sahedul Azam, who represented the petitioner actual throughout the listening to, confirmed the issuance of the rule of thumb.
Nationalist Democratic Bolt (NDM) Chairman Bobby Hajjaj filed the petition through lawyer Sahedul on 3 September 2024, in the hunt for an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of funds from the RNPP intriguing Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure, and niece Tulip Siddiq through a Malaysian financial institution. Media stories over the alleged embezzlement had been connected to the writ.
The ACC chairman and diverse linked events had been named as respondents in the writ as wisely.
In step with a picture published by International Defense Corp on 17 August, Bangladesh’s ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her son Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure and niece Tulip Siddiq allegedly embezzled extra than Tk500 crore from the Rooppur Nuclear Energy Plant.
Several native media outlets also published stories on the alleged embezzlement by the ancient prime minister on 19 August.
The media stories had been also connected to the writ petition.
Rosatom, the carrying out’s enforcing agency, allegedly aided Sheikh Hasina in transferring the $5 billion from diverse Russian slush funds held in Malaysian banks to diverse accounts. Sajeeb Wazed Pleasure and Tulip Siddiq had been said to beget facilitated the transactions, said the International Defense Corp picture.
Alternatively, Russia’s ambassador in Dhaka recently brushed off these allegations against Sheikh Hasina as baseless.
