# Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe

Date: 2012

## The fact

On 29 June 2012 the World Bank cancelled a Padma Bridge credit citing corruption concerns; [Hasina](/people/sheikh-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. Do not store this as a completed steal.

Bangladesh’s prime minister chairs the cabinet and can order security forces under statute. She does not write an Indian extradition order, a UN body-count as if it were a gazette, a 2026 Tarique Rahman cabinet minute, or an ICJ merits judgment. She fled on 5 August 2024; as of August 2026 she is in India, not in office. Country is Bangladesh, not Pakistan. A RAB warrant is not a completed finding that every disappeared person was thereby a militant. Allegation of a stolen 2018 count is stored as a contested election, not as a completed steal. A 2026 Delhi audio is not a return.

## Evidence and sources

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

## Significance

The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption)-risk and public-debt: a completed WB cancellation is an integrity-signal cost even when a later span opened on domestic finance.

## What is established and what is not

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.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

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. Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe on 2012-06-29 is not a licence to treat every later World Bank communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Hasina cancels World Bank Padma finance after a corruption probe into a personality. 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.

## People

- Sheikh Hasina: https://factrail.ai/people/sheikh-hasina

## Drivers

- Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption
- Public-Debt Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/public-debt-sustainability

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bangladesh-worldbank-idUSBRE85S0K420120629
- https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2012/06/29/world-bank-statement-padma-bridge

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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