Sheikh Hasina embezzled 5 billion dollars from Rooppur project according to Global Defense Corp report

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina embezzled more than 5 billion dollars from Rooppur nuclear power plant. This information was given in a report published by the Global Defense Corp yesterday.

According to the report, Rosatrom, the project implementing agency, gave Sheikh Hasina the opportunity to embezzle this money through a Malaysian bank. In which son Sajib Wazed Joy and niece Tulip Siddique mediated.

The largest and most expensive project in the country is Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. It is expected that after its full implementation, it will meet 20 percent of the country's electricity demand. Recently, the Global Defense Corporation published a report based on its own research on this matter.

It is said that the cost of construction of the power plant with the help of Russia is 1 thousand 265 million dollars. Which is much more than needed. So that through a bank in Malaysia, Sheikh Hasina has the opportunity to embezzle 5 billion dollars from this budget, the project implementing organization - Rosatrom.

The then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made this agreement with Russia through the mediation of her niece Tulip Siddique. Tulip, Sheikh Rehana and some family members received 30 percent of the money smuggled in exchange for this mediation.

Tulip Siddique was the companion of Sheikh Hasina during her meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013. According to Global Defense Corp, he also mediated the Dhaka-Moscow billion dollar arms deal at that time.

In 2009, Tulip Siddique, her mother Sheikh Rehana and uncle, the then Prime Minister's Defense Adviser Tariq Ahmed Siddique, launched a fake company called 'Prachhaya Limited'. They also have a company called Jumana Investments in the United States.

Global Defense Corp alleged that Sheikh Hasina used to launder money to offshore accounts of various countries through this company. Their company has been associated with a cheating fund company called Destiny Group and has smuggled about 900 million dollars to various countries including the United Kingdom.

The portal named Global Defense Corp was launched in 2018. They investigate corruption in the military and defense sector of different countries.