UK's National Crime Agency has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Bangladesh's former Land Minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury.
The move follows legal requests from Bangladesh authorities to take action against assets owned by Saifuzzaman, a political ally of ousted PM Sheikh Hasina. Al Jazeera reports that the former Land Minister, Saifuzzaman is now under investigation by Bangladesh authorities for money laundering. Besides, a spokesperson of UK's National Crime Agency confirmed that the agency had secured freezing orders against “a number of properties” under civil investigation