DHAKA: BNP chief Khaleda Zia will appear before the court Thursday (December 1) for giving her statement in both Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.

Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Advocate Sanaullah Miah confirmed the matter to Banglanews on Wednesday (November 30).

The cases are being conducted in the third Special Judge Abu Ahmed Jamader of Bakshibazar makeshift court.

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) filed Zia Orphanage Case on July 3, 2008 with Ramna Police Station accusing Khaleda, her eldest son Tarique Rahman and four others of misappropriating Tk over 2.10-crore, which came as grants from a foreign bank for orphans.

The other accused of the case are former BNP lawmaker Kazi Saleemul Haque, businessperson Sharfuddin Ahmed, Khaleda’s former principal secretary Kamal Uddin Siddiqui and Momenur Rahman.

On August 8, 2011, ACC filed the Zia Charitable Trust Case with Tejgaon Police Station accusing four people, including Khaleda Zia, of abusing power in raising funds for the trust from unknown sources.

Harris Chowdhury, Ziaul Islam Munna, assistant private secretary (APS) to Harris, and Monirul Islam Khan, APS to Sadeque Hossain Khoka, mayor of the erstwhile Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) are the other accused.

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