Badal Ghosh was an

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and later Bangladeshi businessman and political donor to

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Early life

Ghosh was born in 1925 in

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. His father, S. M. Ghosh, was a Bengali Hindu, and his mother was an Arab Christian from Baghdad who separated after returning to Wari,

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. He and his brothers were raised by their mother as a Christian. He has two brothers,

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(died 2016), a music director, and Ashoke Ghosh, a film director. He completed his bachelor's in commerce at the

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Career

The Special Branch investigated Ghosh in the 1960s to see if he was financing the

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led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He owned the Dhaka-based Ajax Power Industries, which he established in the 1950s. He imported agricultural machines. The company was headuarter was on

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in Dhaka. Another subsidiary, Ajax Jute Mills, was closed in 2014. Its current owner, Mohammad Kawsar Zaman Babla, alleged it was occupied by Awami League politicians because of his association with the

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Death

Ghosh died in Singapore.

References

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