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The British National Crime Agency has obtained freezing assignments on two London property owned by the son of an ally of deposed Bangladesh leader Sheikh Hasina, after allegations that her regime has darkened money.
The property is owned by Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman, the son of Salman F Rahman, a Bangladeshi businessman who acted as investment adviser of Sheikh Hasina and Bangladeshi Conglomeration Beximco, according to company and ownership services.
One is a luxury apartment at 17 Grosvenor Square in London, which was purchased in 2010 for £ 6.5 million, while the other, in Gresham Gardens in North Londs, was taken over for £ 1.2 million the following year, according to The Dossings Show.
Sheikh Rehana, the sister of Sheikh Hasina and mother of the former British city minister Tulip Siddiq, lived in the Gresham Gardens site, according to the British election roll records, although it is not clear whether she still lives there.
“We can confirm that the NCA has protected freezing assignments against real estate in 17 Grosvenor Square, London and Gresham Gardens, London, as part of a constant civil investigation. We cannot comment further at the moment,” the NCA said.
A freezing warrant is a judicial order that prevents an active removal.
Salman and Ahmed Rahman are suspects in blackout investigation by the anti-corruption commission of Bangladesh, the chairman Mohammad Abdul told Momes to The Financial Times.
The property is the property of offshore companies on the island of Man, according to the archives.
A spokesperson for Ahmed Rahman said: “Our client denies any involvement in an alleged misconduct in the strongest possible conditions. He will of course conduct a study that takes place in the UK.”
They added: “It is known that there is political unrest in Bangladesh, where countless accusations are made against many hundreds of individuals. We would expect the British authorities to take this into account.”
Sheikh Rehana and Salman Rahman could not immediately be reached for comment.
Sheikh Hasina, who ruled from 2009 to August 2024, was overthrown after students -led street protests against her authoritarian rule. She currently lives in India.
Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize extraction, took the lead for an interim government that wants to reform institutions, such as the police, media and the judiciary, that he claims to have been captured by her Awami League party.
After last year’s rebellious Yunus, Ahsan Mansur, the Governor of the Central Bank, called to supervise an attempt to return billions of dollars in money that he claims was darkened by people near the old regime.
The interim government of Yunus has frozen accounts and seized assets that are owned by some of these people and collaborates with authorities in the US, the UK and other countries to try to recover money.
Supporters of the Ousted Awami League, who forbade the Yunus government earlier this month, accused the new government of pursuing political vendettas in its performance against alleged corruption by the old regime.
Siddiq, the niece of Sheikh Hasina and still a Labor Member of Parliament, got involved in the scandal after he was mentioned in two corruption probes initiated by the new Bangladesh regime.
She denied misconduct, but stopped in January in the midst of warnings that she was in the risk of damaging the reputation of the British government.
Additional reporting by Rafe Uddin