Dhaka, Sept. 15 -- The fallen prime minister Shiekh Hasina while in office had spent about Tk 332 crore from the public exchequer to acquire the Old Dhaka building called Rose Garden, allegedly to fulfill her 'personal whims' which experts termed a serious autocratic mania and called for exemplary punitive actions.

Sources said Hasina also handed over one bigha of land in Gulshan with a house worth hundreds of crores of taka -leaving the exchequer suffer losses estimated at over Tk 332 crore.

Officials of the Public Works Ministry said corruption marked every stage-from acquisition and registration to payment. Advisers to the interim government now state the deal violated the Public Procurement Act and at least three other laws.

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