Bangladesh lacks experts to recover $234bn looted under Hasina: Financial Times

Bangladesh is struggling to build the expertise needed to prosecute cases and recover billions of dollars allegedly looted during Sheikh Hasina's regime, according to a new documentary by the Financial Times. The film, "Bangladesh's Missing Billions: Stolen in Plain Sight", interviews protesters, experts, business figures and politicians to highlight the vast scale of corruption during Hasina's rule, and the challenge of clawing back the money that left the country. It alleges that much of the stolen wealth was funnelled abroad through over- and under-invoicing of trade, informal transfer systems such as hundi and hawla, and property deals in Britain. London in particular emerged as a favoured destination, with money reportedly laundered into high-end real estate. The documentary names several figures...