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Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe

On 29 June 2012 the World Bank cancelled a Padma Bridge credit citing corruption concerns; Hasina’s government rejected the allegation and later self-financed. Self-finance later opened the span in 2022. In the causal graph this event strengthens Institutional Corruption, a driver that strengthens Political corruption index — a worsening welfare path.

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On 29 June 2012 the World Bank cancelled a Padma Bridge credit citing corruption concerns; Hasina’s government rejected the allegation and later self-financed.

Context

WB investigated. She denied. Self-finance later opened the span in 2022. A cancellation is still a dated integrity-and-fiscal instrument.

Padma opening 2022 is the neighbouring later span row.

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Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Sheikh Hasina

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.45 · verified

    WB cancelled. She denied and chose self-finance. Investigators sat.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Reuters — World Bank pulls $1.2 billion Padma loan citing corruptionReuters · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.World Bank — cancellation of Padma Bridge credit, 29 June 2012World Bank · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

World Bank carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

Established: a 29 June 2012 World Bank cancellation citing corruption concerns, independently reported; she denied and later self-financed.

Not established: a completed theft conviction against the prime minister, or a unique later GDP coefficient from the cancellation hour.

She denied and chose self-finance. Investigators sat. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe, not a later speech about Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to WB cancelled. She denied and chose self-finance. Investigators sat. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorSheikh Hasina
  2. contributed toFactHasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe
  3. strengthensDrivers (2)Institutional Corruption
  4. strengthensIndicatorPolitical corruption index

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Factrail. (2026). Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-padma-wb-2012

https://factrail.ai/facts/bd-hasina-padma-wb-2012

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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