Bangladesh’s financial-intelligence unit says court orders have frozen assets worth about Tk 760 billion linked to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family and 10 business groups, at home and abroad. That is the authorities’ figure, reported by Prothom Alo and restated in October by The Business Standard. It is not a West Coast News finding, and it is not a statement that the money was stolen.
Prothom Alo, in a July 15, 2026 account from the launch of the unit’s annual report at Bangladesh Bank, quoted BFIU chief Ikhtiar Uddin Mohammad Mamun. He said freezes ordered by courts covered about Tk 570 billion inside Bangladesh and about Tk 190 billion overseas. He declined to break the sum down by person or company. The 10 groups named in that report are S Alam, Beximco, Nabil, Summit, Orion, Premier, Nassa, Bashundhara, Sikder and Aramit.
The same Prothom Alo report said the Criminal Investigation Department, the National Board of Revenue and the Anti-Corruption Commission are investigating allegations — including bribery, corruption, fraud, forgery, currency smuggling, tax and customs evasion, and money laundering — and that the BFIU is coordinating. Those are investigations and freezes. This desk is not reporting a criminal verdict.
On Oct. 1, The Business Standard, citing the state news agency BSS, reported that the BFIU chief — spelled there as Iqtiaruddin Md. Mamun — said recovery of assets the unit describes as allegedly laundered has moved beyond domestic investigation into international legal proceedings. The paper said the unit is using mutual legal assistance and working with foreign counterparts to seek freezes and recovery abroad. In that account he restated the Hasina-linked tally as about Tk 76,000 crore, about Tk 57,000 crore of it in Bangladesh and Tk 19,000 crore overseas. Tk 76,000 crore is Tk 760 billion, the same official sum Prothom Alo reported in July. Contemporaneous reporting of that taka figure has put it near US$6.2 billion.
The October interview used a different case as its example of the international phase: a United Kingdom proceeding involving former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, described as a former ally of Hasina. That proceeding is not the Hasina tally.
Prothom Alo reported that Hasina lost power on Aug. 5, 2024, after a student-led uprising and then left for India. This story does not add a fresh finding on where she is now.
Mamun’s July remarks, as Prothom Alo quoted them, included his hope of recovering “assets that were stolen from the country.” That is his characterization. The freeze figures above remain court orders and an official tally, not a completed recovery and not a conviction.
