A Dhaka court today (Jan 19) directed the authorities concerned to publish a gazette asking BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman to appear before it in a graft case filed by the anti-corruption commission (ACC).

Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Adaduzzaman passed the order today.

The couple have been asked to appear before the court on February 6 in the graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

On January 5, the same court directed the government to confiscate all moveable and immovable assets of Tarique Rahman and Zubaida Rahman in the graft case.  

The court issued an arrest warrant against the couple on 1 November. They are now on the run.

The ACC lodged a case with Kafrul police station in Dhaka on 26 September in 2007 against Tarique Rahman, Zubaida Rahman and her mother Syeda Rahman Iqbal over concealing the information of assets and amassing wealth beyond known sources of income.

A charge sheet was submitted to the court against the trio in 2008.

BDST: 1454 HRS, JAN 19, 2023
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