Sajeeb Wazed Chuan also the advisor of ousted Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina and her son has called this allegation as completely fake and a vilification campaign. Wazed could not explain how it was possible to steel such huge amounts of money and denied his family had ever enjoyed such luxury. He told Reuters that such allegations were politically influenced. I have not and my family has never been involved with any government project… One cannot embezzle billions out of a $10 billion project. We also do not have any off-shore companies,” Wazed said this. He argued that he had been living in the U.S. for 30 years, other family members lived in the U.K., and none of the family had managed such huge amount of money.
Zillur Rahman and Mujibur Rahman, sons of the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on the other hand, has remained out of the public domain since Sheikh Hasina migrated to New Delhi in early August this year.
Details of the Graft Case
The charges are connected with embezzlement related to the 12.65 billion dollar Rooppur nuclear power plant project initiated in 2015 with Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom. Some of the components of the project are two plants with an installed power of 2,400MW. And a Bangladeshi high court, in a case that never reached a full trial, accused the ACC of inaction over allegations that Hasina, along with her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy and her niece, U.K. Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq had transferred $5 billion to a Malaysian bank. The ACC has since then opened an investigation into the alleged corruption, embezzlement and money laundering in relation to the power plant.
Tulip Siddiq has distanced herself from the case and a spokesperson for U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, she will remain the treasurer. Rosatom has also denied any form of corruption in the exercise.
