Three-term PM of Bangla, widow of deceased dictator Ziaur Rahman, head of the Bangla Nationalist Party, an apparent magnet for corruption ...
to appear before the court on April 13 in connection with Gatco graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of Dhaka Special Judge's Court 3 passed the order after receiving copy of the High Court's February 15 verdict that rejected two petitions filed by Khaleda challenging the legality of proceedings in the case.
The court is also dealing Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust cases filed against Khaleda and eight others.
On September 2, 2007, the ACC filed the Gatco case with Tejgaon cop shoppe against Khaleda, her youngest son late Arafat Rahman Koko, Jamaat-e-Islami
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The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka
The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an
independentbranch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami
...During the liberation war of 1971, Nizami formed the Al-Badr Force and acted as its supreme commander. The Al-Badr militia took active part in rape, extortion, looting and killing of Bangladeshis who supported the liberation, including a pre-planned massacre on December 14, 1971, when the Al-Badr militia along with Pakistan Army rounded up hundreds of doctors, professors, writers, and other Bengali intellectuals, and executed them...
and 10 others. The case was filed under the Emergency Powers Rules.
According to the case statement, there was corruption in the awarding of a contract to Global Agro Trade (Pvt) Company Ltd (Gatco) for container management at inland depots in Dhaka and Chittagong.
The corruption allegedly cost the state exchequer over Tk1,000 crore.