Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal News Blogs -> JURIST - The Paper Chase

Legal News

: JURIST - The Paper Chase

Bangladesh ex-PM Zia facing October corruption trial

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

[JURIST] Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her son, Tarique Rahman, will face court proceedings on corruption charges starting in October, officials from the Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court said Monday. Zia, the head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, her son, and four others are accused of embezzling over 21 million taka (US $305,000) in the Zia Orphanage Trust which is said to be nonexistent. The case was originally filed in August by the country's Anti-C read more

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).