In 2020, Bashundhara invested $143.7 million to build the largest bitumen plant in Bangladesh. This factory will singlehandedly help the country become self-sufficient in bitumen production and the surplus can be exported overseas. On 19 December 2011, Bashundhara chairman Ahmed Akbar Sobhan was sued for 'fraud' by Mohammad Shahjahan over the price of land in Bashundhara.[7] Bashundhara received permission from Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority to Set up two specialized economic zones in Keraniganj, Dhaka, Bangladesh.