Khaleda to be quizzed in Niko scam case
Monday, 18 February 2008
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia will be interrogated at jail gate as a court Sunday passed the order for quizzing her in the Niko corruption case involving a gas-exploration deal with the foreign firm, reports UNB.
Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed the order after Investigation Officer Shahidur Rahman prayed permission for interrogating her in the case.
The anti-graft watchdog Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with Tejgaon police December 09 last year against Khaleda, ex-Law Minister Moudud Ahmed, former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain, former acting energy secretary Khandaker Shahidul Islam, and Vice-president (South Asia) of Niko Resources Bangladesh Ltd Kashem Sharif.
They were accused of signing the "illegal" deal with the Canadian company, Niko, through corrupt means, inflicting a loss of Tk 100 billion upon the state during their reign.
Moudud was questioned January 30 at the gate of Dhaka Central Jail while Mosharraf quizzed the following day (January 31) at the gate of Kashimpur Prison, Gazipur.
Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Rabbani passed the order after Investigation Officer Shahidur Rahman prayed permission for interrogating her in the case.
The anti-graft watchdog Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with Tejgaon police December 09 last year against Khaleda, ex-Law Minister Moudud Ahmed, former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain, former acting energy secretary Khandaker Shahidul Islam, and Vice-president (South Asia) of Niko Resources Bangladesh Ltd Kashem Sharif.
They were accused of signing the "illegal" deal with the Canadian company, Niko, through corrupt means, inflicting a loss of Tk 100 billion upon the state during their reign.
Moudud was questioned January 30 at the gate of Dhaka Central Jail while Mosharraf quizzed the following day (January 31) at the gate of Kashimpur Prison, Gazipur.