Corruption case filed against Sheikh Hasina

Dhaka, Sept 2 (UNI) Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a 3 crore taka corruption case against detained ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

ACC Deputy Director Sabbir Hasan lodged the case with Tejgaon police station in the capital, accusing Hasina and six others of taking the money from two private companies -- the Summit Group and the United Group.

The companies allegedly paid the money in exchange of getting permission to set up a Barge Mounted Power Plant in southern Khulna City.

Other accused included former Energy Secretary Toufique Elahi, former Power Development Board chairman Noor Uddin Mahmud Kamal and Summit Group chairman Aziz Khan along with his brother.

The case statement alleged that Sheikh Hasina, while in power, took the amount to buy land for Bangabandhu Memorial Trust in the name of her father slain President Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

This is the fifth case filed under the army-backed emergency government against Hasina, now detained in a makeshift jail in the national parliament compound.

Hasina was arrested on July 16 in connection with an extortion case involving about 3 crore Taka given by Azam J Chowdhury, Managing Director of East Coast Private Trading Ltd, local agent of Russian state-owned Technopromp Export.

Another extortion case was filed against her by Tajul Islam Farook, chairman of Westmont Power Company, under the non-bailable sections of the penal code.

Two more cases of extortion were filed against Hasina. A political murder case was also filed against her by her political adversaries.

UNI