Since Hasina was toppled in a student-led mass uprising in 2024 and fled to India, authorities have investigated the former prime minister's wealth and looked into her relatives and major business groups accused of benefiting during her 15-year, iron-fisted rule. The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit said it had seized assets worth 570 billion taka in Bangladesh and another 190 billion taka overseas.

Sheikh Hasina says she will return to Bangladesh from her self-exile to face the law

Investigators pursue overseas assets as corruption and money laundering probes continue.

Authorities have opened 98 cases and are still trying to recover money they say was moved overseas.