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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has initiated an investigation against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy for allegedly laundering $300 million to the United States. ACC officials confirmed this matter to the Business Standard today.
The commission has decided to forward the complaint filed against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy to the director general (Special Investigation) for the purpose of investigation, reads a release by the ACC.
Sources said the ACC has also launched a separate probe into claims that Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, Rehana's daughter and British MP Tulip Siddiq, and others embezzled Tk80,000 crore through irregularities and corruption from nine priority development projects during the Awami League government's tenure.
The nine projects include the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant, Ashrayan, and several others under BEPZA and BEZA, said sources.
On 17 December, the ACC started an inquiry into allegations of Tk80,000 crore embezzlement by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and other members of their families from different development projects initiated during the Awami League regime.
Of the amount, Tk59,000 crore has been reportedly embezzled from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project. The other family members include Hasina's son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and Rehana's daughter Tulip Siddiq.
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