UK approached to investigate $17bn worth of assets linked to Hasina’s allies: BB governor tells Financial Times

Bangladesh’s intervening time authorities has approached the UK to support probe the in a single other nation wealth of allies of feeble prime minister Sheikh Hasina because it investigates whether or now now not Hasina’s regime diverted spherical $17 billion in a single other nation from the nation’s banking system.

In particular, the focal level is on identifying the source of funds ragged to pay for a UK property portfolio rate  £150mn owned by feeble land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury.

Speaking to the Monetary Instances, Ahsan Mansur, Bangladesh’s novel central monetary institution governor, talked about he had sought the reduction of the UK among other countries. He talked about such sources might well maybe also additionally be within the US, Singapore and the UAE.

“The UK authorities has been very significant. The excessive commissioner became as soon as in my office and to boot they provided many of technical make stronger,” talked about Mansur.

Mansur urged Monetary Instances that probing the sources became as soon as “a arena that we are going to gaze reduction from the UK authorities to the extent these sources might well maybe also additionally be recovered”.

On the $17bn laundered, amounting to spherical Tk2 trillion, Mansur talked about, “A heist of this declare might well maybe also now now not bear taken map with out the knowledge of the prime minister”.

He, then but again, added that the investigations had been at a “very early stage”.

UK officers confirmed to Monetary Instances that a gathering took map, but declined to observation on what became as soon as discussed.

Period in-between authorities Chief Adviser Dr Muhammad Yunus in August sought make stronger from the British authorities by map of its envoy in Dhaka to trace and earn lend a hand the money laundered to the UK allegedly by the folk linked to the Sheikh Hasina-led authorities.