“There are allegations that Sheikh Hasina, through abusing power in collaboration with senior officials of RAJUK, allocated six plots under political considerations for her family members,” ACC director general Aktar Hossain told journalists here today.

Indian companies are participating in constructing the Rooppur nuclear power plant, which is being built by Rosatom, Russia's state-run corporation in Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina's son, Sajeeb Wazed, who spoke on behalf of the family, said they were targets of a political witch hunt in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh's anti-corruption authority has begun investigating former PM Sheikh Hasina and relatives over a USD 5 billion misappropriation at the Rooppur nuclear power plant. Involving Russian and Indian collaboration,