Graft case: Bangla court docket points new arrest warrant towards Hasina, daughter
The ACC alleged Putul had performed that “even supposing she and her members of the family owned a home or flat or housing facility in an space beneath the jurisdiction of RAJUK in Dhaka metropolis”.
Putul is presently serving because the South East Asian regional director for the World Well being Organisation (WHO) based mostly in New Delhi since 1 November 2023.
Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal earlier issued two similar arrest warrants towards Hasina, her political colleagues and senior civil and army officers on expenses like a criminal offense towards humanity and enforced disappearance as they’re being prosecuted there.
However Thursday’s warrant got here only a day after the ACC stated it launched a brand new inquiry into the alleged “wastage” of Taka 4,000 crore by Hasina, her youthful sister Sheikh Rehana and a former official for “Mujib Centenary” celebrations.
The ACC alleged that the quantity it quoted was spent by the nationwide exchequer.
He stated the investigation into the matter, nevertheless, was underway because it started in January this 12 months. “Our crew is presently amassing data from numerous organisations.”
Bangladesh noticed the yearlong celebration coinciding with the a hundredth birthday of Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2020 whereas Hasina’s Awami League was in energy.
Rehana didn’t maintain any official place previously regime whereas the third man to be investigated by ACC is Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, a former principal secretary to the federal government who served because the chief coordinator of the celebration after he retired from the federal government job.
ACC chairman Mohammad Abdul Momen earlier this week stated there was no distinction between the previous premier and a typical corrupt particular person and “the method to deliver again a corrupt fugitive is similar, whether or not it’s Hasina or anybody else”.
Hasina can also be accused of quite a few expenses like mass murders and crimes towards humanity, enforced disappearances whereas these circumstances had been being filed with Bangladesh’s Worldwide Crimes Tribunal.
The tribunal was shaped initially to attempt hardened collaborators of Pakistan troops throughout Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation Battle and a number of other of them had been tried there and had been executed as effectively subsequently after exhausting the enchantment course of.
