Dhaka, March 11 -- The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit, or BFIU, has frozen over Tk 6.35 billion from 124 bank accounts belonging to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her family members.

The Bangladesh Bank disclosed the information at a meeting on the prevention of money laundering chaired by interim government head Muhammad Yunus on Monday, Chief Advisor's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said.

At a press conference after the meeting, he says the interim administration has decided to enact a special law within the next week to return the "$234 billion" laundered during the previous government.

Highlighting information from the report prepared by a joint team of the BFIU, Anti-Corruption Commission, or ACC, the National Boa...