WHO’s South-East Asia Head and Deposed Dictator Hasina’s Daughter Put ‘On Leave’ – Guido Fawkes

WHO’s South-East Asia Head and Deposed Dictator Hasina’s Daughter Put ‘On Leave’

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Daughter of deposed Bangladesh dictator Sheikh Hasina and the World Health Organisation’s south-east Asia head Saima Wazed has been put “on leave” this week. Wazed was charged by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission with fraud, forgery and abuse of power in March. Among the allegations is that she allegedly illegally obtained a government residential plot. Wazed has not publicly responded to the allegations…

Last month the ACC requested the WHO help “facilitate” Wazed’s appearance before the Bangladeshi courts and “initiate…whatever is demanded…for an absconder in a serious criminal offence”. The agency has appointed Catharina Boehme, assistant director-general at WHO’s Geneva headquarters, as officer-in-charge of the South-East Asia Regional Office in New Delhi “during the period.” Might be a while…

Meanwhile, former assistant UN secretary-general Kul Chandra Gautam said “If [Wazed] were not the daughter of the PM, I don’t think she would be a serious candidate.” To which Wazed has said was an “offensive” claim. The saga continues…