25 December,2024 09:14 AM IST | Dhaka | Agencies
The Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant under construction. FILE PICS/AFP
An anti-graft panel in Bangladesh has launched an investigation against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family in connection with the allegations of embezzling USD 5 billion in the Rooppur nuclear power plant, according to a media report.
Sheikh Hasina
Indian companies are participating in constructing the Rooppur nuclear power plant which is being built by Rosatom, Russia's state-run corporation, in Bangladesh.
The first Bangladeshi nuclear power plant, the Russian-designed Rooppur, is being built 160 km west of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Rosatom has refuted the "provocative statements" in the media about the Rooppur NPP project.
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