By IANS
Dhaka : Bangladesh's former prime minister Sheikh Hasina has missed filing her wealth returns, even as her political rival Khaleda Zia has paid Taka 3.3 million ($550,000 approx.) to "get her undisclosed money legalised," media reports said Wednesday.
Zia availed "amnesty offered to tax dodgers", paying to the National Board of Revenue, that has so far received around Tk three billion ($50 million) tax under the amnesty as a total of 8,559 people took the opportunity to "whiten their black money", The Daily Star said.
Jailed in an extortion case and then bailed out, Hasina was served a notice July 18 to file a statement on her wealth within a week, a deadline that was later extended.
Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank, declined to supply details of her account needed to enable her to file her statement, United News of Bangladesh (UNB) news agency said.
The anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) that is pursuing Hasina's extortion case and has cited her in two more cases has said it has "nothing to do" with Bangladesh Bank's refusal and that Hasina would have to file her papers, whether in or outside jail, by Aug 8.
"Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wrote a letter to the chairman seeking advice and cooperation in submitting her wealth statement. The commission in its meeting today considered the issue with sympathy. It appeared to the commission that it has nothing to do with it," ACC Secretary Mokhles ur Rahman told media.
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