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Saifuzzaman chowdhury, a former Minister of Earth, was shown in Al Jazeer’s investigation, the minister’s millions.
The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen properties in the UK owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, former Earth Minister for Bangladesh, Al Jazeera’s Investigation Unit (I-unit) can be detected.
The move follows the legal requests of the Bangladesh authorities to act against assets owned by Chowdhury, who is in a deposit of Bangladesh Prime Minister Shich Hasin’s political ally from the now forbidden Awami League Party. Bangladesh authorities are investigating Chowdhury for money laundering.
Last night in a statement to the I-unit, a NCA spokesman confirmed the sequence of freezing: “We can confirm that the NCA has provided freezing orders against several properties as part of the ongoing civil investigation.”
Property freezing actually means that the assets cannot be sold to Chowdhury.
Police agencies, often referred to as the British FBI, coincided with this week’s visit to London by Professor Muhammad Yunus, a temporary leader in Bangladesh.
Last year, Al Jazeera revealed that 56 -year -old Chowdhury owns more than 350 properties in the UK. Although the NCA is not yet understood, the I-unit may discover that Chovhuria’s luxury home in St John’s Wood, London, is part of an active freezing.
Homes bought for £ 11 million ($ 14.8 million) was a secret filming scene by secret journalists from Al Jazeera I-units. Journalists met with Chowdhury during the long -term investigation of the wealth he had accumulated while he was still a government minister.
During the meeting, Chowdhury spoke widely with journalists about their global property portfolio and discovered his taste about expensive suits and designer Baby Croc leather shoes. He described his close ties with now deposited Sheikh Hasin, saying al -Jazeera journalists, “I’m actually like her son.”
“She knows I have a business here,” he told them too.
The I-unit revealed that Chowdhury received a real estate empire from a powerful family in the Port of Chitagong Port, despite the $ 12,000 annual restriction as part of the national currency law for the amount that the citizen can withdraw from Bangladesh. The investigation revealed that Chowdhury spent more than $ 500 million in real estate in London, Dubai and New York, but did not report his overseas active in his Bangladesh’s tax returns.
The secret meeting was part of Al Jazeera’s documentaries Minister’s millionsBroadcast last October.
Chowdhury was close to a deposit of Prime Minister Shich Hasin’s ally, who escaped from Bangladesh in August 2024 after hundreds of killing because the security forces shortened the student protests.
After Hasin’s departure, the Bangladesh authorities launched an investigation into widespread corruption in her government.
After the uprising and violence on the street in Bangladesh, the I-unit tracked Chowdhury to his London house, where he could be observed while walking on his exclusive surroundings, which includes the Lord’s Cricket Square.
In previous statements, Al Jazeera Chowdhury said the funds used to buy his overseas property come from legal companies outside Bangladesh, which had owned him for years. The former minister said he had politically motivated “witch hunting”.
