Bangladeshis linked to Hasina regime appear to have made UK property transactions in past year | Real estate

When Bangladesh’s student -led revolution finally overturned Sheikh Hasina, the security forces had already shed hundreds of protesters’ blood.

Now, almost a year after the country’s autocratic leader escapes into exile the former British colony, a temporary government is fighting in painful factional policies and economic turmoil.

Against this traumatic ground, a mansion in London in a Knightsbridge town or a private road in Surrey appears in the world.

Nevertheless, the luxury UK plays a central role in the real estate drama.

Inspectors in Dakka prevent the allegations of powerful and politically connected figures under the previous regime that use high -level positions to plunder the state contracts and the banking system and channel millions of England property.

In May, the National Crime Agency (NCA) – sometimes called the FBI of British – British portfolio froze £ 90 million of the members of the Rahman family announced last year at a Guardian investigation.

Three weeks later, NCA froze more than £ 170 million of Saifuzzaman Chowdury, a former land minister, a former land minister, who gathered an former deeper of the British property during his term of office.

Now, an investigation by Guardian and the campaign group transparency International, a few Bangladeshlis under the examination in Dakka, seems to have sold, transferred or re -financed the UK property since the revolution began.

Procedures raise questions about the determination of the UK law firms and consultants who help to facilitate the freedom and transactions they continue to do business in London.

The leading figures in Bangladesh’s temporary government now call on the presence of more England to freeze the presence of the UK, while the authorities in Dakka complete their investigations.

The London property is now the leading role of those who have been invoiced as the liquidation of the anti-corruption by some of them-but others are politically motivated as a witch hunt.

From Dakka to Dorchester

London five -star hotel The Dorchester, where rooms cost £ 800 overnight, may not look the most suitable basic to target a collapsed elite.

Nevertheless, Mayfair Hotel’s plush rooms served as a temporary house of a large Bangladesh government delegation, which was visited in early June, ruled by the Provisional Prime Minister Muhammad Yunus.

London is particularly important for Bangladesh, partly due to the support offer to monitor the assets that Britain thinks that researchers in Dakka can be obtained using the money laundered due to the great diaspora in the capital.

The Central Bank Governor Ahsan Mansur, who leads his country’s efforts to return assets, wants more measures, such as those who are opposed to Chowdury and Rahmans.

Mansur, “We are aware of the efforts to liquidate beings and we want the British government to think more to freeze,” he said.

Measures to prevent the procedures, “the process of sending the necessary process to send back the assets,” he said.

The call was repeated by Bangladesh’s Anti -Corruption Commission (ACC). Last month, Muhammad Abdul Momen said NCA wanted a few people to think of freezing their assets in the midst of the post -revolutionary real estate market activity.

Freezing or freezing

The statements made to the UK Land Registration Book were presented at least 20 “Job Applications ında regarding the property of the figures under the examination of Dakka last year. Such documents typically change a sales, transfer or a mortgage.

The three are ultimately related to the property of 24.5 million pounds belonging to the members of the Sobhan family.

One of the four -storey city house in Knightsbridge was the subject of the last two operations, whose purpose was uncertain. Until April last year, it belonged to Sayem Sobhan Anvir, General Manager of Beşundhara through a directly -based company based on the United Arab Emirates.

Guardian is one of the few family members under investigation by Sobhan, including money laundering, including money laundering.

In April, the facility was transferred to a UK business called BrookView Heights Ltd. BrookView is Orbis London, a real estate consultant company with offices in Liechtenstein and Singapore.

London House seems to be sold to a newly established company, a single manager without an online profile, a £ 7.35 million pounds. Accountant is registered as the owner and manager of many other companies that seem to be special -purpose vehicles for multimily -pound London Properties.

Land records show that the United Kingdom’s law firms have made two more applications on the properties of another member of the Sobhan family, including a host of 8 million pounds in Virginia Water.

A family member did not return the request for comment, but he said that the family had previously rejected all the wrong allegations and would defend ourselves firmly against these claims ”.

The members of the Sobhan family are among the clutch of the property owners who want to think about freezing from the ACC assets.

Two more people from ACC were examined as part of the investigations about Chowdury.

Both made more than one property agreement last year.

One is an Anisuzzaman, the brother of Chowdhury, and the other is a successful British-Bangladeshi Property developer whom Guardian chose not to name it.

Land registry data show the latest market activity on four properties owned by Aniszaman Chowdury.

The fringes of Regent’s Park, the center of London, which was completed last July, includes the sale of a Georgian city house of 10 million pounds. Since then, three more applications have been realized again.

For Aniszaman Chowdury, lawyers said that there was a legitimate reason for the freezing of any of their assets and that the sale of regent park property was accepted in 2023 before the revolution.

According to reports in Bangladesh, ACC was previously asked to investigate whether Chowdury’s London -based property developer helped to receive an irregular loan by a large local bank president UCB.

This year, a Bangladeshi court imposed a travel ban on the developer who rejected any injustice.

The three applications for the transaction are related to the properties of the son of the son of Beximco Business Group, one of the largest holdings of Bangladesh, and the nephew of Salman F Rahman. Ahmed Shayan Rahman and Ahmed Shahriar Rahman Acc.

The properties, including a 35 million pounds apartment in Mayfair’s Grosvenor Square, were frozen by NCA last month.

For the Rahman, the lawyers said they rejected any injustice. They said that the “political turmoil önemli in Bangladesh has led to allegations against many people and added that they would” enter any investigation in the UK “.

Joe Powell, the president of a party parliamentary group examining corruption and tax, wants such investigations to act quickly.

“History tells us that the assets can evaporate quickly unless quick steps are taken to freeze these assets while the investigations continue.”

Powell welcomed the action taken by NCA with pleasure, but called on to ında expand the network as soon as possible ”.

Considering the fact that London’s reputation for the reputation of London as a home for suspicious funds, and especially Russia’s focus on the oligarks that occupy Ukraine, it is leading a group of parliamentary leaders.

Transparency International asks questions about the role played by more than one British company that is already targeted by NCA for individuals who are targeted or calling ACC.

Jaswal Johnston, a law firm, made applications about Rahmans’s properties. A spokesman said that the firm did not participate in any sale and that it took the necessary care obligations “extremely seriously”.

Merali Beedle, a law firm that applied to deal with a 8 million pounds house owned by a member of the Sobhan family and a law offering of a member of the Sobhan family, refrained from commenting.

Transparency International spokesman said: “Professional service companies should be very careful when conducting activities for customers who are known to be under investigation. They should perform comprehensive source of wealth and inform the police immediately suspicious activities.

“Without the Swift action, these funds are at risk of disappearance to the international financial system and potentially bringing them beyond healing.”

ACC refused to comment on investigations.