Khaleda Zia jailed for 5 years and Tarique Rahman for 10 years

[Black_cats]

Khaleda jailed for 5 years
| banglanews24.com
Update: 2018-02-08
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been convicted for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

http://www.banglanews24.com/english/national/article/66791/Khaleda-convicted-for-5-years

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DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been convicted for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

The special court, set up in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar area, delivered the verdict on Thursday (February 08).

Earlier, Judge of Dhaka Special Court-5 Md Akhtaruzzaman began to deliver the verdict at about 2:10 pm after Khaleda Zia reached the court at around 1:45pm.

Thousands of BNP leaders and activists flocked to the street, to accompany the motorcade of Khaleda Zia. As the motorcade reached Tejgaon Satrasta area, the crowd turns huge.

Clash between police and the BNP activists in several phases were reported as Khaleda Zia’s motorcade crosses Hatirjheel crossing.

Some of the leaders and activists were chanting slogans, supporting their party chief.

Police opened fire in air as the BNP activists were vandalizing and torching motorcycles at Kakrail. BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain were seen heading towards the court on foot.

Earlier, Khaleda Zia left her Gulshan residence at around 11:45am, to appear before the court.

On January 25, the special court fixed February 08 for delivering the verdict.

In July 2008, the ACC filed the case accusing Khaleda, her son BNP's senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore grant money for orphans.

The four other accused are--then BNP lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque, Ziaur Rahman's nephew Mominur Rahman, former principal secretary Kamal Uddin Siddique and businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed.

Of them, Khaleda is now on bail while Salimul and Sharfuddin are in jail. Tarique and Mominur and Kamal have been absconding.

This is first time that any former prime minister of Bangladesh is getting verdict in a corruption case.

BDST: 1435 HRS, FEB 8, 2018
EHJ

 

[T-Rex]

Khaleda jailed for 5 years
| banglanews24.com
Update: 2018-02-08
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been convicted for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

http://www.banglanews24.com/english/national/article/66791/Khaleda-convicted-for-5-years

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DHAKA: BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has been convicted for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.

The special court, set up in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar area, delivered the verdict on Thursday (February 08).

Earlier, Judge of Dhaka Special Court-5 Md Akhtaruzzaman began to deliver the verdict at about 2:10 pm after Khaleda Zia reached the court at around 1:45pm.

Thousands of BNP leaders and activists flocked to the street, to accompany the motorcade of Khaleda Zia. As the motorcade reached Tejgaon Satrasta area, the crowd turns huge.

Clash between police and the BNP activists in several phases were reported as Khaleda Zia’s motorcade crosses Hatirjheel crossing.

Some of the leaders and activists were chanting slogans, supporting their party chief.

Police opened fire in air as the BNP activists were vandalizing and torching motorcycles at Kakrail. BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury and Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain were seen heading towards the court on foot.

Earlier, Khaleda Zia left her Gulshan residence at around 11:45am, to appear before the court.

On January 25, the special court fixed February 08 for delivering the verdict.

In July 2008, the ACC filed the case accusing Khaleda, her son BNP's senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman and four others for misappropriating over Tk 2.10 crore grant money for orphans.

The four other accused are--then BNP lawmaker Kazi Salimul Haque, Ziaur Rahman's nephew Mominur Rahman, former principal secretary Kamal Uddin Siddique and businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed.

Of them, Khaleda is now on bail while Salimul and Sharfuddin are in jail. Tarique and Mominur and Kamal have been absconding.

This is first time that any former prime minister of Bangladesh is getting verdict in a corruption case.

BDST: 1435 HRS, FEB 8, 2018
EHJ

She is paying the price for not standing up to the AL regime.

 

[monitor]

All money still exist in the account. Amount rise to 7 core from 2 core then how can we tell she embezzle the money . Land purcpurch in orphanage name land purchased in orphanage name nothing seems unusual.
This verdict is a way t o disqualify Khaleda from next election .

 

[Centaur]

She is paying the price for not standing up to the AL regime.

Or paying the price of their ( she and her son ) endless robbery and trying to make bangladesh as a failed state ?

 

[bluesky]

I think, the case will be transferred to the High Court, then to Supreme Court and then to Appeal Division for the final verdict. It is sad to think that she mishandled fund for the Orphanage Trust. Orphans are the most destitute people in any country.

 

[Black_cats]

The main problem happened when in 2007 the entire money was withdrawn by Sharfuddin Ahmed. Other then that the case would not be surfaced to begin with. During 2014 when was asked why he withdrawn the money he answered Tareq Zia asked to purchase land in Ashulia but could not show any initial agreement to purchase the land and also failed to answer for a orphanage house to be built in Bogura why he tried to purchase land in Ashulia. However he returned the money as instructed by the court that time.

 

[Dot]

A short bio of the asshole, the judge who placed the verdict. http://www.newsforbd.net/newsdetail/detail/200/361901

 

[Sh@msu]

All money still exist in the account. Amount rise to 7 core from 2 core then how can we tell she embezzle the money . Land purcpurch in orphanage name land purchased in orphanage name nothing seems unusual.
This verdict is a way t o disqualify Khaleda from next election .

Until now what i have heard from seniors,this is not going to work out.
This verdict was never about khaleda zia,it was always about Tareq zia.It's him who govt fear most,specially when election is coming.

 

[Black_cats]

Live: Police take Khaleda to jail after conviction in graft
From English News Desk, bdnews24.com

Published: 2018-02-08 09:22:20.0 BdST Updated: 2018-02-08 15:05:49.0 BdST

https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2018/02/08/live-eyes-on-khaleda-verdict

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Former prime minister and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia gets five years in jail as court convicts her in Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.




This is a live blog. Please check back for update.

* Minutes after the verdict, security forces led away Khaleda Zia to jail.

* Court finds former PM Khaleda guilty and sentences her to 5 years in jail. Her son Tarique Rahman and four others get 10 years.

*Khaleda Zia, clad in her signature off-white chiffon sari, sits on a chair next to the judge’s desk, with the verdict in a corruption case looming over the former prime minister.

* Judge Akhtaruzzaman starts reading verdict at 2.15pm. The verdict contains 632 pages.

* Police tear-gassed BNP activists to break up protests on Nazimuddin Road in Old Dhaka. Witnesses say at least two supporters have been led away by police.

* Clashes continued between supporters and police on Nazimuddin Road even after Khaleda Zia entered the court premises.

* Khaleda reaches court amid clashes between supporters and police in Dhaka.

* Senior BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain and Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury arrive at the Bakshibazar crossing in Old Dhaka ahead of a verdict in a corruption case against their party chief Khaleda Zia.

* Officers of police’s Detective Branch are seen in front of the BNP office in Naya Paltan, with some senior leaders including Ruhul Kabir Rizvi staying inside. Police create a security ring around the building. RAB officers are on stand-by.


* TV footage shows at least two motorbikes on fire as violence breaks out;

* Clashes break out between police and BNP activists as Khaleda's motorcade reaches Kakrail; Police lob tear gas shells as BNP supporters hurl brickbats.

* Parts of capital Dhaka stall as thousands of BNP activists descend on the streets to accompany Khaleda Zia’s motorcade.


* Senior BNP leaders are on their way to join thousands of activists on a key Dhaka road as party chief Khaleda heads to court in a politically sensitive corruption case.

* Khaleda’s motorcade weaves through a flow of supporters on a key Dhaka road.

* Leaders and activists defy police action and stick to the moving car carrying their leader. Slogans are heard.

* Clashes break out between police and lawyers on Supreme Court premises.

* Special aide Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas accompanies the BNP chief. Khaleda’s motorcade has five cars packed with members of her personal security force. Law-enforcement officials in 13 separate cars are providing security.

* Khaleda’s car slows on her way to court as her supporters gather on a key road and chant slogans.

* Hundreds of activists pour in on Dhaka road as Khaleda Zia heads to court; slogans supporting the former prime minister are heard.

* TV footage shows BNP activists and supporters gather around Khaleda’s car on her way to court in Old Dhaka. The vehicle comes to a halt.

*The BNP chief leaves her Gulshan home one and a half hours behind schedule for court appearance.

*TV footage shows her in a white car as she heads to court.

*Former prime minister Khaleda Zia heads to court in Old Dhaka. The road to court looks empty as police tighten security.


*Judge Md Akhtaruzzaman who presided over the trial of former prime minister Khaleda Zia arrives in court and stays in his chamber.

*DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia warns pro-BNP lawyers of action as they try to enter the court premises, reports Staff Correspondent Md Tabarul Huq.

*Police bar Khaleda Zia’s counsel Ahmed Azam Khan from entering the courtroom and he says his client may be denied justice. “I have been her lawyer for the past 30 years. My constitutional right is now breached,” he says.


*Leaders and activists of Jubo Dal, the youth wing of BNP, gather outside the court in Old Dhaka riding motorbikes, reports Chief Crime Correspondent Liton Haider. Police banned all kinds of rallies and processions.

*Arson reported from Sherpur: A truck, laden with stones, has been torched by arsonists in the district's Sreebardi Upazila early Thursday, says Police Inspector Rezaul Hoque.

*Secondary School Certificate or SSC exams have started on time at 10am, says Dhaka Board Exam Controller Tapan Kumar Sarker.


*Khaleda Zia’s security force will be allowed to enter the court premises but they will not be allowed to carry guns, says DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia.

*RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed visits the court premises and urges Dhaka residents not to be misled by “smear campaigns” on the social media.

*Authorities reduce the number of seats in courtroom by half as part of a security measure as a verdict in a corruption case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia is just hours away.


*Two suspects, former Magura MP Quazi Salimul Haq Kamal and businessman Sharfuddin Ahmed, arrive in court.

*Khaleda Zia’s lawyers Abdur Rezak Khan and Masud Ahmed Talukder are present in court. ACC counsel Mosharraf Hossain is yet to arrive.

*The Special Judge’s Court set up in Bakshibazar for the trial of former prime minister Khaleda Zia goes under security blanket.


*Authorities note down names, designations and phone numbers of journalists and lawyers before letting them enter the courtroom in Old Dhaka.

*Khaleda’s lawyer and BNP Joint Secretary General Mahbub Uddin Khokon enters her house. The former prime minister is due to start for court in Old Dhaka at 10:30am.

*Law enforcers bar media vehicles from passing through Gulshan circle 2. Mobile phone networks go down around Khaleda’s home, reports Chief Political Correspondent Suman Mahmud.

*Police beef up security around Khaleda Zia’s home in Gulshan as she prepares for court in Old Dhaka.

*Khaleda Zia will leave her Gulshan home to head for the court in Old Dhaka at 10am.

*DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia holds a morning media briefing and asks everybody to obey the law as a court verdict on Khaleda Zia looms.

*Police tighten security in Dhaka ahead of a court verdict in a corruption case against former prime minister Khaleda Zia.

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03:10 PM, February 08, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 03:14 PM, February 08, 2018
SC to decide if Khaleda can contest polls: Minister

http://www.thedailystar.net/politics/sc-decide-if-khaleda-can-contest-polls-minister-1531750

Law Minister Anisul Huq. Star file photo

Star Online report

After BNP chief Khaleda Zia was jailed for five years, Law Minister Anisul Huq said it depends on the Supreme Court decision whether she can contest the next national election slated for December this year.
According to the constitution, a person cannot contest the national election if he or she is sentenced to two years or more imprisonment for moral turpitude, the minister said.

 

[Kandari-Hushiyaar]

This will only destabilize our stable country. What an Idiot!

Or paying the price of their ( she and her son ) endless robbery and trying to make bangladesh as a failed state ?

Who is not a thief in our country??

 

[Black_cats]

BNP attack footage handed to London police, says foreign minister
Senior Correspondent bdnews24.com

Published: 2018-02-08 14:07:06.0 BdST Updated: 2018-02-08 14:07:06.0 BdST

https://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/201...handed-to-london-police-says-foreign-minister

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The Bangladesh High Commission in the United Kingdom has handed over the video footage showing BNP activists vandalising its offices, to London police, Foreign Affairs Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali has said.




The UK unit of the BNP attacked the offices on Wednesday ahead of the Khaleda Zia’s corruption trial verdict.

Some 100 party supporters carrying banners and placards gathered at the high commission premises.

The Britain chapter’s President MA Malique has admitted some protesters entered the high commission and vandalised the photos of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Police arrested one person on the spot, Minister Ali said at a press briefing on Thursday. He briefed the media on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s official tours to Italy and Vatican City due to start on Feb 12.

The minister read out a statement condemning the attack.

“A group of protesters, in the name of submitting a memorandum, forced into the high commission and attacked the mission officials and vandalised its property,” says the statement issued by the Bangladesh High Commission in UK.

“Bangladesh High Commission, London, represents Bangladesh. So vandalising mission’s property means damaging the state property and attacking the mission means attacking Bangladesh.”

Such violent and unruly acts have tainted Bangladesh’s image abroad, it said.

The commission claims that the protesters are spreading fake photos on social media to mislead people, Ali said.

The Denmark chapter of the Awami League also has condemned the attack.

 

[Centaur]

Who is not a thief in our country??

Yes I know but perhaps there are some differences.
However peoples will reply based on their personal experience and needs.
I consider electricity as a basic need alongside food and shelter. And my answer was based on electricity problem .
This disaster always prohibited me from even thinking of a democratic election .
And few others but that can be debated .
But in summer almost 16-18 hours of loadsheding ( 2 hour loadsheding and 1 hour electricity in cruel summer even all day and night ) madetraumatic ( in 2005-06).
That's the thing I just can't forget and don't want to forget . Perhaps this is the reason I can't be stoic in this case. It was a real hell and I won't be freed crorm those memories I believe .
If BNP will lead by others ( except Zia family; thought I admire Zia as a good man and good administrator bit his wife and son is gotat opposite to him .) , I will try to be rational , otherwise not . Thank you.

 

[Russell]

She lead Bangladesh to no.1 in corruption 5 years in a row...now, she gets 5 years in jail

Some would say it was almost poetic lolol

*she'll get bail within a couple of days and will end up never serving any time for this.

 

[Black_cats]

Chatra League at Dhaka University has brought out rally to celebrate the verdict

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03:18 PM, February 08, 2018 / LAST MODIFIED: 03:31 PM, February 08, 2018
Verdict is completely politically motivated: Fakhrul

http://www.thedailystar.net/country...y-general-mirza-fakhrul-islam-alamgir-1531753

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. File photo

Star Online Report

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said the verdict against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia iscompletely “politically motivated”.
“This verdict is influenced by political vengeance,” said Mirza Fakhrul, who was also at the Special court-5 in Bakshibazar when the verdict was read out.

The BNP chief has been sentenced to five years in jail after she was found guilty in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case.

Her eldest son and BNP’s Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and four others have been given 10 years in the case and a fine of Tk 2.10 crore each in the politically significant case ahead of the parliamentary election.

 

[Species]

The roads and streets are all dangerously calm here in Chittagong.