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Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, the immediate past land minister, yesterday acknowledged having assets abroad that were accrued through income generated from businesses outside of Bangladesh.

At a press conference held at the Jatiya Press Club, Chowdhury, the eldest son of Awami League leader Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, said he did not take money out of Bangladesh to acquire the properties in the UK and the US.

The extraordinary press conference was called in response to a Bloomberg report on February 18 that said Chowdhury owned more than 350 properties in the UK worth about £200 million and at least five properties in the US.

On December 29 last year, The Daily Star reported on a subset of Chowdhury’s UK properties after Iftekharuzzaman, the At yesterday’s

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