{"id":70369,"date":"2025-03-24T14:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/mar\/24\/mps-think-they-may-have-been-targets-of-disinformation-over-bangladesh-inquiry"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T05:00:41","slug":"mps-think-they-may-have-been-targets-of-disinformation-over-bangladesh-inquiry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70369","title":{"rendered":"MPs think they may have been targets of \u2018disinformation\u2019 over Bangladesh inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group received emails about Ahsan Mansur, the central bank official investigating money laundering allegations<\/p>\n<p>British MPs believe they may have been targeted by a \u201cdisinformation\u201d campaign aimed at discrediting the man leading efforts to trace funds allegedly laundered from Bangladesh into the UK.<\/p>\n<p>MPs raised the alarm after receiving emails about Ahsan Mansur, who was installed as the central bank governor of Bangladesh last year, after a student-led revolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/article\/2024\/aug\/07\/the-guardian-view-on-bangladeshs-uprising-a-fresh-but-fragile-opportunity-to-renew-democracy\">swept away the autocratic government of Sheikh Hasina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/mar\/24\/mps-think-they-may-have-been-targets-of-disinformation-over-bangladesh-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group received emails about Ahsan Mansur, the central bank official investigating money laundering allegationsBritish MPs believe they may have been targeted by a \u201cdisinformation\u201d campaign aimed at discrediting the man leading efforts to trace funds al&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"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":[327,1832,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-house-of-commons","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70369","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\/893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70369\/revisions\/70371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}