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Bangladesh's ex-PM Khaleda Zia attends hearing on graft case

Xinhua, June 2, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi ex-Prime Minister Khaleda Zia has appeared before a court in capital Dhaka for hearing in a graft case filed by the country's Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Hundreds of members of Khaleda Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) had gathered in the court's surrounding areas to welcome her at the makeshift court in the old part of capital Dhaka.

Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Special Judge Court-3 adjourned the hearing of trial proceedings till June 23 in the Zia Charitable Trust graft case filed against the BNP chief Khaleda Zia and others.

The court came up with the adjournment order in response to a petition filed by the defense seeking more time for Khaleda Zia's deposition in the case.

Earlier on April 17 this year Khaleda Zia attended hearing on the graft case.

In 2011, the anti-graft body sued Khaleda and others for pocketing 31.5 million taka (397,435 U.S. dollars) of the Zia Charitable Trust in the name of her late husband, former President Ziaur Rahmant during her 2001-2006 prime minister term.

Khaleda often said political vendettas are to blame for the cases against her and her sons during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's incumbent government, against which she has been leading the opposition procession from her party. Endit