{"id":68024,"date":"2024-11-30T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/nov\/30\/money-trail-questions-over-deposed-bangladeshi-elites-400m-uk-property-empire"},"modified":"2024-11-30T22:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:00:28","slug":"money-trail-questions-over-deposed-bangladeshi-elites-400m-uk-property-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68024","title":{"rendered":"Money trail: questions over deposed Bangladeshi elite\u2019s \u00a3400m UK property empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associates of former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina have spent millions buying up top-flight property assets in the UK<\/p>\n<p>As Sheikh Hasina watched Dhaka fade from view, aboard a military helicopter, crowds were storming her palatial residence.<\/p>\n<p>Far below, about 1,000 Bangladeshis lay dead and countless more injured, the toll of a brutal crackdown by her security forces on student-led protests, sometimes called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/bangladesh-gen-z-revolution-students-protest-change-sheikh-hasina-awami-dhaka\">Monsoon Revolution<\/a>. Hasina was soon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/18\/bangladesh-seek-extradition-ousted-leader-sheikh-hasina-india\">in India<\/a>, where she has remained in exile since August.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/nov\/30\/money-trail-questions-over-deposed-bangladeshi-elites-400m-uk-property-empire\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associates of former Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina have spent millions buying up top-flight property assets in the UKAs Sheikh Hasina watched Dhaka fade from view, aboard a military helicopter, crowds were storming her palatial residence.Far below, abou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,1219,2816,61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-real-estate","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68024\/revisions\/68025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}