GATCO graft case

Bdnews24.com

A Dhaka court has ordered the remaining seven fugitives in the GATCO graft case, including former finance minister M Saifur Rahman, to appear in court by May 28.

Metropolitan senior special judge Md Azizul Haque asked authorities Thursday to publish a gazette notfication in this regard, and also ordered former prime minister Khaleda Zia and others already arrested in the case to appear the same day.

Khaleda and other detained accused were scheduled to appear in court Thursday, but prison authorities failed to produce them for security reasons, said defense counsel advocate Masud Ahmed Taluker.

Advocate Sanaullah Miah, one of Khaleda's lawyers, told bdnews24.com: "We have asked the court to review all the documents and the chargesheet in the case, and the court is obliging us on that matter."

Some 24 people have been made accused in the case so far; 17 people have been detained while seven remain fugitive.

The fugitives are former finance minister and acting BNP chairperson M Saifur Rahman, former commerce minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury, former shipping secretary Julfiker Haider Chowdhury, Jahanara Ansar, wife of former shipping minister Akbar Hossain, and three GATCO directors AKM Musa Kajal, Shahjahan M Hasib and Ehsan Yusuf.

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