Former prime minister Khaleda Zia and all other accused in the Niko scam case are facing an order to appear in court on May 20.

Metropolitan special judge Md Azizul Haque passed the order.

The court Tuesday ordered former BAPEX general manager Mir Moinul Haque and former BAPEX secretary Md Safiur Rahman, to jail after they turned themselves in to court and appealed for bail.

The court also disposed of their appeals for awarding them division in line with the jail code.

The surrender of the two took the number of the accused behind bars to eight.

Lawyers Khandaker Delwar Hossain, Sanaullah Miah and Masud Talukder were present on behalf of the accused.

Anticorruption Commission assistant director SM Sahidur Rahman submitted a chargesheet in the case on May 5 against 11 people, including Khaleda, her son Arafat Rahman Coco, former law minister Moudud Ahmed, former state minister for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain, businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun and former Dhaka Club president Selim Bhuiyan.

The remaining three—Niko vice-president for South Asia Kashem Sharif, the former prime minister's principal secretary Dr Kamal Uddin Siddiqui and Petrobangla director CM Yousuf Hossain are on the run.

The court ordered authorities to publish notices in newspapers seeking information about the fugitives.

The accused allegedly abused their official powers and favoured Canadian company Niko allowing special facilities over the transfer of Chhatak and Feni gasfields and declaring Chhatak gasfield 'abandoned' in deals that cost the state coffers Tk 13,777 crore in losses.

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