Dhaka, April 29 -- A court has imposed a travel ban on eight directors of Prochchaya Ltd, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina's security advisor Tarique Ahmed Siddique's brother, wife, and children, over allegations of embezzling nearly Tk 590 billion through corruption in the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project.

On Tuesday, Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib issued the order following a petition by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), according to the agency's spokesman Akhtarul Islam

Among those barred from leaving the country is Shafique Ahmed Siddique, who is Tarique's brother and husband of Hasina's younger sister Sheikh Rehana, Tarique's wife Shaheen Siddique and two daughters, Bushra Siddiqu...