First Bangladesh Court Hearing Dates Set for Tulip Siddiq Charges – Guido Fawkes

First Bangladesh Court Hearing Dates Set for Tulip Siddiq Charges

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Bangladeshi media today reports:

“The hearing of the chargesheet in the corruption case involving former premier Sheikh Hasina and members of her family is scheduled to begin at Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judges’ Court from Thursday. The case centres on allegations of irregularities and abuse of power in the allocation of government land in Purbachal New Town project overseen by RAJUK.”

This kicks off hearings for six cases involving the allocation of property in the Purbachal area in Dhaka. The Anti-Corruption Commission has confirmed the court schedule: “The cases will be heard in three phases, starting 15 days after the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted its chargesheets. The ACC submitted the chargesheets on Mar 24 in connection with the six land allocation cases. All six were filed at the Senior Special Judges’ Court in Dhaka.” Sheikh Hasina and members of her family including former corruption minister Tulip Siddiq are named on the ACC’s charge sheets, along with sixteen officials from RAJUK and the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. A total of 23 people are accused…

The court schedule for the charge sheets is reported as:

• 10 April: Sheikh Hasina and her daughter Saima Wazed. 16 total accused.
• 13 April: Three more cases, in all of which Tulip Siddiq is named. Two cases accuse 16, one accuses 15 total.
• 15 April: Two additional hearings against Sheikh Hasina and eight other people.

The ACC says these “hearings are a prerequisite for determining the admissibility of the chargesheets.” Siddiq for her part denies all wrongdoing – she and her lawyers call claims against her “vexatious.” Formal proceedings initiated…