Once a schoolteacher at Sabuj Kanan High School in Sirajganj, Jannat Ara Henry now stands as a striking symbol of political excess and unchecked corruption.<\/p>\n
Over a span of just 15 years, she transformed into a billionaire parliamentarian with a portfolio that anti-graft officials describe as “staggering” and “fairy-tale like.”<\/p>\n
Henry was elected to the 12th National Parliament as an Awami League-nominated candidate, serving for six months and 25 days.<\/p>\n
Amid mounting public outrage following the mass uprising that led to the ouster of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 last year, Jannat Ara Henry went into hiding. However, she failed to evade capture and was eventually arrested by law enforcers.<\/p>\n
Over the 15-year rule of the Awami League, she rose to prominence as a political figure and Member of Parliament, accumulating wealth that anti-corruption officials have described as “staggering” and “fairy-tale like.”<\/p>\n
Currently, she owns 16 vehicles, alongside flats and land across Dhaka, Sirajganj and elsewhere. The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has uncovered Tk 2,002.66 crore in transactions across 35 bank accounts, along with evidence of USD 13.78 million in suspected money laundering.<\/p>\n
Talking to BSS, ACC officials confirmed that this is merely a partial snapshot of Henry’s assets, illustrating how rampant corruption flourished under political protection. Investigations into other political figures and civil servants paint a similar picture.\u09ac\u09bf\u09b8\u09cd\u09a4\u09be\u09b0\u09bf\u09a4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once a schoolteacher at Sabuj Kanan High School in Sirajganj, Jannat Ara Henry now stands as a striking symbol of political excess and unchecked corruption. Over a span of just 15 years, she transformed into a billionaire parliamentarian with a portfolio that anti-graft officials describe as “staggering” and “fairy-tale like.” Henry was elected to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63680,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63678\/revisions\/63680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deshnews24.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}