The Bangladeshi Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Sunday filed a corruption case of 30 million taka (about 430,000 U.S. dollars) 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 30 million taka from two private companies -- the Summit Group and the United Group.
The companies allegedly paid the money in exchange for getting permission to set up a Barge Mounted Power Plant in southern Khulna City.
The case statement alleged that Sheikh Hasina while in power from 1996 to 2001 took the amount from the two business companies from Oct. 24, 1996 to Nov. 24, 1997.
This is the fifth case filed against Sheikh Hasina now detained in a makeshift jail in the national parliament compound.
However, trial of any case has not yet started against her.
Hasina was arrested on July 16 in connection with an extortion case involving about 29.9 million taka (about 427,000 US dollars) by Azam J Chowdhury, managing director of East Coast Private Trading Ltd., local agent of Russian state-owned power company Technopromp Export.
Chowdhury filed the case alleging that Hasina and her cousin ex- health minister Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim who is also in jail extorted 29.6 million taka from him to allow the operation of 210 MW power plant in Narayanganj district, 25 km south of capital Dhaka, in 1998.
Another two extortion cases were filed against Hasina by two companies in April and June.
A political murder case was also filed against Hasina by her political adversaries.
Source: Xinhua
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