Rooppur nuclear energy challenge is for well-being of individuals of Bangladesh: Rosatom

A view of the Rooppur nuclear powerplant in Bangladesh. File picture

Russian nuclear main Rosatom on Tuesday (December 24, 2024) mentioned the Bangladesh anti-graft fee’s remarks are “an try and discredit” the Rooppur nuclear energy challenge. In an announcement issued to the media, Rosatom reiterated that the $2.65 billion Rooppur challenge is clear and that it is able to defend the case in a courtroom of regulation.

“Rosatom is dedicated to a coverage of openness and the precept of combating corruption in all its initiatives and maintains a clear procurement system. Exterior audits usually affirm the openness of the enterprise processes of the challenge. Rosatom State Company is able to defend its pursuits and popularity in courtroom,” Rosatom mentioned in an announcement despatched to The Hindu.

The assertion from Rosatom got here a day after the Anti-Corruption Fee of Bangladesh got here out with an announcement alleging that deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her members of the family together with her niece the UK MP Tulip Siddiq laundered round $900 million to offshore outfits in Malaysia. The fee cited an inside investigative report and said that it has found round $5 billion “irregularities” within the Rooppur nuclear energy challenge that has been beneath the works since 2011.

Rosatom described the anti-corruption outfit of Bangladesh as “provocative” and mentioned, “We think about false statements within the media as an try and discredit the Rooppur NPP challenge, which is being applied to resolve the nation’s power provide issues and is geared toward enhancing the well-being of the folks of Bangladesh.”

The Hindu had reported earlier, that Tulip Siddiq who’s a Labour MP in the UK and has been dealing with scrutiny within the UK because the fall of the federal government of her aunt Sheikh Hasina, was concerned in an elaborate scheme to launder cash that concerned her paternal uncle Tarique Ahmed Siddique. Tulip Siddiq and her members of the family are stakeholders in an organization named Prochchaya which together with one other entity Destinty Group had laundered $900 million, the Anti-Corruption Fee in Bangladesh had alleged.