Author: Al Jazeera Investigative Unit

EXCLUSIVE: Undercover sting reveals how the politician bought hundreds of overseas homes on a $13,000-a-year salary. An undercover investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit) has uncovered that former Land Minister of Bangladesh, Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, spent over $500 million on luxury real estate in London, Dubai, and New York without declaring his overseas assets on his Bangladesh tax returns. The investigation revealed that Chowdhury, despite a $12,000 annual limit on foreign currency withdrawals for citizens of Bangladesh, managed to amass a significant property empire with 360 homes in the UK alone since 2016. Authorities in Bangladesh have taken action by…