Khaleda Zia jailed for five years in corruption case

A court docket within the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has sentenced worn Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to 5 years in penal advanced in a corruption case.

Grab Md Akhtaruzzaman of the Particular Court-5 on Thursday sentenced the 2-time worn top minister to rigorous imprisonment, based mostly utterly mostly on the Each day Massive title newspaper.

Zia, the chairperson of the nation’s main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Occasion (BNP), at the side of five others, used to be accused of embezzlement of funds supposed for the Zia Orphanage Belief.

The BNP chief used to be convicted of embezzling greater than $250,000. She has maintained that the allegations are politically-motivated.

She gained’t be in a insist to lumber within the no longer unusual elections as a consequence of be held in December.

Tarique Rahman, Zia’s elder son who’s vice president of the celebration, and 4 others had been given 10 years within the politically well-known case before the no longer unusual elections.

BNP supporters clashed with police and blocked roads in Dhaka within the wake of the verdict.

Police worn dawdle gas to disperse BNP supporters in Dhaka [Mahmud Hossain Opu/Al Jazeera]