A court here today formally started the trial against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman and his wife Zubaida Rahman in a graft case, by framing charges against them.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Mohammad Asaduzzaman also scrapped Tarique and Zubaida's petition to appoint lawyers at their own expense as they were termed as 'fugitive accused' in the case, and set April 13 for the next hearing.
Earlier on November 1, 2022, the court issued arrest warrants against the duo after accepting the charges pressed against them. On February 6, this year, the court issued a gazette asking the couple to appear before the court.
On September 26 in 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against Tarique, Zubaida and Tarique's mother-in-law Iqbal Mand Banu for amassing illegal wealth of Taka 4.81 crore and concealing information about the assets, said the case documents.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha