Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s son on Saturday accused the World Bank of having attempted to “discredit” his mother by levelling graft allegations in awarding contract of an ambitious bridge project, saying the global lender had “fabricated evidence”.
Sajeeb Wazed Joy said those who raised allegations of graft in awarding contracts for the Padma Bridge project should apologise to the Government after a Canadian court debunked graft allegations in the case, bdnews24.Com reported.
Joy, also the Prime Minister’s Information and Communication Technology adviser, blamed the World Bank for raising a controversy over graft and bribery in the Padma Bridge project, the report said. “The evidence was fabricated by the World Bank. I had seen the evidence myself during whole episode. It was quite clearly made up as there were no concrete details, just one anonymous source who was never revealed, even to the Canadian court. “The World Bank came up with this plot against my mother, PM Sheikh Hasina’s Government in an attempt to discredit her,” he wrote in a Facebook post.