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Bangladesh's erstwhile constabulary main Benazir Ahmed was arrested successful Dubai, the Interior Minister said connected Sunday (June 14, 2026), years aft helium fled his location state wherever helium is facing aggregate charges including corruption.
Mr. Benazir, erstwhile a adjacent state of erstwhile person Sheikh Hasina, near the state successful May 2024 amid nationalist outrage implicit allegations that helium had stashed an amerciable multi-million dollar fortune.
The United States imposed sanctions against the authoritative successful 2021 for his alleged relation successful hundreds of disappearances and extrajudicial killings erstwhile helium led the feared Rapid Action Battalion paramilitary force.
"Benazir Ahmed was arrested connected June 12 and helium volition beryllium extradited soon," Bangladesh's Interior Minister Salahuddin Ahmed told parliament.
"An Interpol Red Notice was issued against Benazir," helium added.
"This is simply a historical achievement. Through these efforts, we volition beryllium capable to interruption the civilization of impunity," Salahuddin Ahmed said.
"We privation to guarantee the federation that nary perpetrator, nevertheless powerful, is supra the law."
A student-led revolt toppled premier curate Sheikh Hasina successful August 2024, forcing her into exile.
