Over the course of three decades, Saifuzzaman Chowdhury built a multi-million-dollar real estate empire with properties across the globe, as recent investigations by the Financial Times and Al Jazeera show. But he did so during his tenure as Bangladesh’s minister of land, and most of the money used by Chowdhury to purchase real estate was laundered from the country he was supposed to serve. Now, Bangladesh’s interim government wants that money back. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler spoke to Iftekhar Zaman, executive director of Transparency International Bangladesh. He also headed an anti-corruption commission formed by the new government when it came to power.
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