Dhaka, April 9 -- Former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury's assets are already being put on sale in the UK market as he has not defended allegations of siphoning money from Bangladesh.

Sources involved in stolen asset recovery say Chowdhury has refrained from appointing any lawyer in the UK courts to contest the allegations of money laundering.

Even calls from the UK courts to join hearings via video conferencing have gone unanswered, intelligence agency sources confirm.

Sources in both the UK and Bangladesh, engaged in asset recovery efforts, have confirmed these developments to The Financial Express.

As the matter is being treated as a civil case, the UK courts have proceeded with the sale of assets to liquidate them and recover ...