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Viewing cable 07DHAKA1161, HASINA FACES NUMEROUS ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION,

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07DHAKA1161 2007-07-18 09:17 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Dhaka
VZCZCXRO5894
RR RUEHCI
DE RUEHKA #1161/01 1990917
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
R 180917Z JUL 07
FM AMEMBASSY DHAKA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4529
INFO RUEHLM/AMEMBASSY COLOMBO 8014
RUEHIL/AMEMBASSY ISLAMABAD 1741
RUEHKT/AMEMBASSY KATHMANDU 9184
RUEHNE/AMEMBASSY NEW DELHI 0038
RUEHCI/AMCONSUL KOLKATA 0836
RUEHBS/USEU BRUSSELS
RUCNDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK
RHHMUNA/USCINCPAC HONOLULU HI
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 DHAKA 001161 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM PGOV KGOV KDEM BG
SUBJECT: HASINA FACES NUMEROUS ALLEGATIONS OF CORRUPTION, 
EXTORTION 
 
REF: DHAKA 1152 
 
1. SUMMARY.  (SBU) On July 16, Awami League president Sheikh 
Hasina was arrested at her Dhaka residence and brought to 
court on charges of extortion.  The charges stem from an 
alleged bribe Hasina and her cousin, Sheikh Fazlul Karim 
Selim, extracted from a company seeking permission to build 
an electricity generating plant in 2001.  In addition to this 
charge, several other charges are pending against Hasina. END 
SUMMARY. 
 
THE BACKGROUND 
============== 
 
2. (SBU) Early on July 16, Awami League president Sheikh 
Hasina was arrested at her Dhaka residence and brought before 
the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, where she was 
charged in an extortion case.  The magistrate denied bail and 
transferred the case to the Special Anti-Trafficking Court. 
Hasina was then transferred to a sub-jail created for her 
detention in the empty residence of the Deputy Speaker of 
Parliament, located on the Parliament grounds. A date for the 
framing of charges against her in the Special Court is 
pending.  Lawyers for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) 
will prosecute the case on behalf of the government. 
 
 
THE ACCUSATION 
============== 
 
3. (SBU) Hasina faces charges that she and her cousin, jailed 
Awami League Presidium member Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, 
demanded bribes from the representative of a Russian power 
company named Techno Prom Export in 2001. The local 
representative of Techno Prom was Eastcoast Trading Private 
Limited.  Its managing director, Azam Chowdhury, filed the 
charges against Hasina on June 12. 
 
4. (SBU) According to Azam Chowdhury, Techno Prom received a 
work order to build and commission the first phase of a power 
plant in Narayanganj in 2000, when Hasina was Prime Minister 
and Sheikh Selim was Health Minister.  Techno Prom hired 
Eastcoast Trading to be its local representative in 
Bangladesh.  Sheikh Selim informed Chowdhury that Hasina 
would stop the project and prevent the government's Power 
Development Board from paying Techno Prom if they did not pay 
a "commission."  Chowdhury paid Selim 29 million taka, 
($420,000) in eight checks drawn from Standard Chartered Bank 
and Southeast Bank. 
 
5. (SBU) Selim was arrested on May 29.  In an open court 
hearing on June 21, he confessed that he extorted the 29 
million taka from Eastcoast and divided it with Hasina. 
Investigators working with the Anti-Corruption Commission 
have reportedly traced the checks back to accounts controlled 
by Hasina and Selim, prompting Hasina's formal arrest. 
 
THE OTHER CASES 
=============== 
 
6. (SBU) According to open media and government sources, the 
following cases against Hasina that are currently being 
investigated by the police and the ACC: 
 
A) Tajul Islam Farook, chairman of Westmont Power Company, 
filed a case against Hasina on April 9 alleging extortion and 
abuse of power.  Farook says that in 1998, when Hasina was 
Prime Minister, she demanded a three million taka ($43,000) 
bribe from his company to secure the contract to construct 
and launch a 90-megawatt barge-mounted power plant for the 
government. Westmont won the bid.  The case is currently 
under investigation. 
 
B) Noor Ali, director of Unique Group and managing director 
of the Dhaka Westin Hotel, filed an extortion case against 
Hasina.  He alleged he paid Hasina and her cousin Sheikh 
Helal over 50 million taka ($725,000), and transferred to 
Helal's wife ownership of two apartments in 1998 to resolve a 
dispute between his company and the Power Development Board 
over his company's construction of a 110-megawatt 
barge-mounted power plant.  Ali claims he personally handed 
to then-Prime Minister Hasina twelve checks amounting to over 
32 million taka ($463,000), with the remainder paid directly 
to Helal. This case is also currently under investigation. 
 
DHAKA 00001161  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
C) The Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAC), predecessor to the 
ACC, filed a case against Hasina in December 2001, alleging 
corruption deals she made while Prime Minister to purchase 
eight MiG-29 fighter planes from Russia and a naval frigate 
from South Korea.  On May 28, the interim government appealed 
to the High Court to resume hearing the two graft cases 
against Hasina.  The High Court will hear Hasina's petition 
to dismiss the proceedings on August 1. 
 
D) In October 2002 an investigative officer submitted a 
charge sheet against Hasina accusing her and other former 
ministers of corruption involving the contract to construct 
the Meghnaghat Power Plant.  A trial was initiated in October 
2002, but the High Court stayed the case later that year.  On 
May 16, the High Court decided to lift the stay and scheduled 
a July 25 hearing of Hasina's petition to dismiss the case. 
 
E) On April 11, police charged Hasina, Jamaat Islami 
president Matiur Rahman Nizami, and 50 other politicians with 
murder, incitement to violence, and other serious offenses 
connected to the street demonstrations and riots on October 
28, 2006.  Seven people were killed in the clashes between 
Awami League and Jamaat Islami supporters in downtown Dhaka. 
On July 16, Bangladesh press reported incorrectly that Hasina 
was also being charged in this case.  Investigators are 
continuing to collect evidence in this case. 
 
THE PUBLIC DEBATE 
================= 
 
7. (SBU) In news appearances in the United States shortly 
after Hasina's arrest, her son Sajeb Wazed "Joy" decried his 
mother's detention, claiming she was arrested without a 
warrant, and that her detention was undemocratic and 
politically motivated.  A government lawyer familiar with the 
case said Hasina was not detained under the government's 
Special Powers Act, but had been charged in a specific 
bribery case.  The lawyer stated that under Bangladesh's 
Criminal Procedure Code, a warrant is not required in such a 
case.  The lawyer added that Hasina's detention came only 
after an extensive investigation into the charges, including 
the testimony of her cousin, Sheikh Selim. 
 
8. (SBU) Post continues to monitor the arrest and cases 
against Hasina closely. 
PASI