{"id":72297,"date":"2025-06-12T20:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T11:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/nca-freezes-170m-of-uk-property-belonging-to-ally-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader"},"modified":"2025-06-12T23:42:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:42:29","slug":"nca-freezes-170m-of-uk-property-belonging-to-ally-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72297","title":{"rendered":"NCA freezes \u00a3170m of UK property belonging to ally of ousted Bangladesh leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saifuzzaman Chowdhury\u2019s assets frozen as authorities in Dhaka investigate alleged corruption of former regime<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s serious crime agency has frozen UK property worth \u00a3170m belonging to the former land minister of Bangladesh amid a crackdown on former allies of Sheikh Hasina, the autocratic leader deposed in last year\u2019s student-led revolution.<\/p>\n<p>The National Crime Agency (NCA) confirmed it had frozen assets belonging to Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, who is among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2024\/nov\/30\/money-trail-questions-over-deposed-bangladeshi-elites-400m-uk-property-empire\">allies of Hasina whose sizeable UK real estate portfolios have come under scrutiny<\/a> by authorities in Dhaka investigating alleged corruption.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/12\/nca-freezes-170m-of-uk-property-belonging-to-ally-of-ousted-bangladesh-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saifuzzaman Chowdhury\u2019s assets frozen as authorities in Dhaka investigate alleged corruption of former regimeBritain\u2019s serious crime agency has frozen UK property worth \u00a3170m belonging to the former land minister of Bangladesh amid a crackdown on forme&#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":[327,983,215,3322,1219,2816,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-crime","category-london","category-nca-national-crime-agency","category-real-estate","category-sheikh-hasina","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72297","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=72297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72314,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72297\/revisions\/72314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}