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Unfreeze Khaleda's accounts

BNP asks govt

Staff Correspondent
The BNP yesterday demanded that the government unfreeze all eight bank accounts of party Chairperson Khaleda Zia, saying those were frozen "illegally" during the last caretaker government's tenure.
Nazrul Islam Khan, member of BNP standing committee, made the demand at a press conference at party's Nayapaltan office in the capital.
The eight bank accounts that Khaleda maintains for her family and party purposes were frozen following the 1/11 changeover in 2007, he said.
"Transactions are done mainly through two of her [Khaleda] bank accounts. Money earned from house rent and other sources is deposited with the two accounts,” said the BNP leader.
There wasn't much money in the other six accounts, and no transactions were made through those for many years, he said.
The BNP chief has been living in a rented house after "the government evicted her from her cantonment residence," Nazrul said.
"She [Khaleda] applied to the National Board of Revenue for permission to draw additional money from her bank accounts. But the NBR is yet to give any response.”
On the NBR Chairman's claim that Khaleda didn’t apply to the NBR for unfreezing her bank accounts, Nazrul said the NBR chief didn't tell the truth.
"The BNP chief obviously applied to the NBR for unfreezing her bank accounts," he said.
Nazrul also criticised ministers and Awami League lawmakers who in parliament on Monday commented on the BNP chiefs personal life and expenditure.
"The government is in crisis, and is making such remarks about our party chief out of political vendetta," he said.
A number of ruling party MPs and ministers, including Matia Chowdhury, commented that the BNP chiefs saris cost from Tk 4 to 5 lakh each.
Nazrul said the then caretaker government unfroze the bank accounts of AL President Sheikh Hasina before the 2008 national election, but didn't do so in case of Khaleda.
"Though there was no complaint with the NBR against Khaleda, her bank accounts are yet to be unfrozen. It is a violation of constitutional rights of an individual," he added.