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ACC allowed to quiz Khaleda, Tarique on fake orphanage

Koko asked to appear in court July 24

Court Correspondent
A Dhaka court yesterday allowed the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) to interrogate detained former premier Khaleda Zia and her elder son BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman at the jail gate in connection with a corruption case.
The commission filed the case against seven people including Khaleda and Tarique on charges of embezzling over Tk 2.10 crore by forming a fake establishment named Zia Orphanage Trust.
Meantime, another Dhaka court yesterday asked the jail authorities to produce Khaleda's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko before it on July 24 in connection with a graft case, although he had been released on medical grounds for two months.
ZIA ORPHANAGE TRUST CASE Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed the order after ACC Deputy
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Assistant Director Harunur Rashid, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted a petition for interrogatingthem.
The same court on Thursday gtanted a petition submitted by the IO for showing them arrested in the case.
According to the case proceedings, the then prime minister Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique and the other five accused embezzled over Tk 2.10 crore by establishing an organisation that only exists on paper.
The five other accused are former BNP lawmaker Qazi Saleemul Huq Kamal, Syed Ahmed alias Sayeed Ahmed, Gias Uddin Ahmed, Sharfuddin Ahmed and Khaleda's nephew Mominur Rahman.
CASE AGAINST KOKO
Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Azizul Haque took the charges into cognisance for trial and set the date for next hearing of the case filed against Koko for amassing wealth illegally and concealing wealth information from the commission.
On July 17, ACC Deputy Director Abu Sayeed, also the IO of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court, showing 31 people as prosecution witnesses.
He said Koko should be on trial since the charges against him have been proved in primary investigation.
The ACC filed the case against
him with Ramna Police Station on April 23 this year for amassing wealth worth Tk 2.23 crore illegally and concealing information about his assets worthTk 11.20 lakh.
According to the case statement, Koko in his wealth statement submitted to the commission said he, his wife and their twodaughters have movable and immovable properties worth around Tk 8.08 crore.
However, an ACC investigation found that the assets belonging to the family are worth more than the mentioned amount.
It also found that Koko concealed information about a flat at Banani, loans from banks and remuneration and also other benefits that he might have received from different businesses.
He also held back informanon about 500 shares (Tk 100 each) he has in a business firm named Hasanco Aviation Ltd and two bank savings certificates (Tk 1 lakh each) under his wife’s name.
His wife's investment of Tk 1.50 crore in a business and his expenses for 84 overseas trips between September 2003 and December 2006 did not match the couple's stated sources of income.
Koko was released on Thursday for two months by an executive order "on medical grounds". He is now in Bangkok for medical treatment.
Earlier, he was exempted from appearing in person before courts during tnal proceedings in two graft cases.