Niko case

A Dhaka court Wednesday ordered former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and eight others accused in the Niko scam case to appear in court on May 21, reports bdnews24.com

Metropolitan special judge Md Azizul Haque gave the order Wednesday.

The court ordered authorities to publish notices in the newspapers asking the six accused in the case who are absconding to appear in the court on the appointed day.

The court also ordered for production of three other detained accused in the case viz. Sheikh Hasina, professor Rafiqul Islam and former power secretary Toufique-e-Elahi Chowdhury in the court on the same day.

Toufique is on bail in the case but currently detained in another case.

Anticorruption Commission deputy director MM Shabbir Hassan filed the case with Tejgaon police station on December 9, 2007.

Hasina, during her term as the prime minister allegedly approved a Niko deal in 2001, which allegedly cost the government Tk 13,630.50 crore in losses, according to case details.

The ACC submitted a chargesheet in the case on May 7.

The graft watchdog filed another case with the same police station against another former prime minister Khaleda Zia on the same charges.

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