Dhaka, Sep 28 (IANS) Top Awami League leaders Tofail Ahmed and Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, both members of the party’s presidium, are on the new list of 80 people suspected of corruption.
Also on the list prepared by the government are five former ministers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), The Daily Star said Friday.
Meanwhile, BNP chief and former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko — all three in detention — have filed separate writ petitions with the high court challenging the legality of the continuing process of filing cases against them by the investigating authorities.
Two detained former BNP ministers — Moudud Ahmed and Nazmul Huda — also filed writ petitions in the high court challenging the cases that the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed against them for allegedly amassing wealth beyond their known sources of income.
Khaleda and Arafat in their petitions questioned the validity of the government move in bringing the graft case against them under the emergency power rules (EPR), under which an accused has no right to bail.