{"id":42485,"date":"2024-07-16T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=42485"},"modified":"2024-07-16T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T12:54:33","slug":"bangladesh-pms-servant-having-worth-tk400-crore-sparks-graft-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/bangladesh-pms-servant-having-worth-tk400-crore-sparks-graft-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh PM’s servant having worth Tk400 crore sparks graft probe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DHAKA: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina<\/a> says she is “taking measures” after a slew of corruption scandals \u2014including one involving her former household servant who now travels by helicopter after amassing a staggering $34 million fortune.<\/p>\n

Recent accusations dominating Bangladesh\u2019s normally pliant media have involved a former army chief, an ex-police chief, senior tax officers, and state recruitment officials.<\/p>\n

“Corruption is a longstanding problem,” Hasina told reporters late Sunday. “These messes must be cleaned up… we have been taking measures.”<\/p>\n

She said that included action against her household assistant \u2014 a “peon” or low-level orderly \u2014 who Bangladeshi media reported had previously been a water-bearer, in case she needed a drink at events.<\/p>\n

“The man who worked as a peon in my house \u2014 he now owns 400,00,00,000 Taka ($34 million),” Hasina said. “He can\u00b4t move without a helicopter. How has he earned so much money? I took action immediately after knowing this.”<\/p>\n

It would take an average Bangladeshi more than 13,000 years to earn that amount. The average GDP per capita in the nation of around 170 million people is $2,529, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n

Hasina did not identify the servant, but several newspapers named him Jahangir Alam, nicknamed “Pani” or “water”, due to his old job.<\/p>\n

The Dhaka Tribune Daily reported the orderly had used his position in Hasina\u00b4s office to engage in “lobbying, tender manipulation, and bribery”.<\/p>\n

\u2018Astronomical amount\u2019<\/h2>\n

The fat-cat servant report spread rapidly on social media \u2014 with opposition parties seizing on it to accuse Hasina\u00b4s administration of endemic corruption.<\/p>\n

“If Sheikh Hasina\u2019s peon could make such an astronomical amount of money, you can guess how much his boss has made,” said AKM Wahiduzzaman, a spokesperson for the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the main opposition party.<\/p>\n

“The most shocking thing is he has not been prosecuted for his crime,” he added. “He was just removed from his post”.<\/p>\n

Hasina, 76, won her fourth consecutive general election in January, in a vote without genuine opposition parties, with a widespread boycott and a major crackdown against her political opponents.<\/p>\n

But since May, a series of high-profile corruption scandals have put the spotlight on her more than 15-year-long rule.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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