Court Correspondent :
The Ninth Special Judge Court of Dhaka yesterday fixed September 14 for hearing on charge framing in Niko graft case against BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia and others.
Judge Sheikh Hafizur Rahman of Dhaka court passed the order on Thursday.
The hearing was scheduled to be held on May 6. But as the normal operations of the courts were suspended due to the Corona-virus pandemic, the hearing could not be held. The court on Thursday fixed September 14 to hold hearing in the case.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against five including Begum Khaleda Zia with Tejgaon Model Police Station on December 9, 2007, for abuse of power in signing a deal with
Canadian Company Niko for exploring and extracting gas.
The ACC on May 5, 2008, submitted the charge-sheet of the case against 11 people including Khaleda Zia. The ACC accused them of incurring a loss of more than Taka 13 thousand crore to the state exchequer through that deal.
The other accused people in the case are late Barrister Moudud Ahmed, late AKM Mosharraf Hossain, Kamal Uddin Siddiqui, Khandaker Shahidul Islam, CM Eusuf Hossain, Mir Moinul Haque, Md Shafiur Rahman, Gias Uddin Al Mamun, MAH Selim and Kashem Sharif.
