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Published : 16 Mar 2015, 06:48 PM
Dhaka’s First Money Loan Court issued the order implicating them on Monday following a move by state-owned Sonali Bank Limited.
The court fixed Apr 12 as the next date of hearing.
The bank’s lawyer, Zahangir Alam, said they had appealed for naming the four as defendants in the case, as Khaleda’s son Arafat Rahman Coco, who was a director of Dandy Dyeing, had died in Malaysia in January.
“The heirs to a defendant in a loan default case can be substituted if the defendant dies.”
Coco’s wife Sharmila Rahman Sithi and daughters Zahia Rahman and Zafia Rahman are the new defendants in the case.
Sithi and her daughters went back to Malaysia after Coco’s funeral and burial in Dhaka in January.
Coco, along with his family, had been living in Malaysia for about six years despite conviction by a Bangladesh court in a money laundering case.
Khaleda is already facing an arrest warrant in the Zia Orphanage Trust and Zia Charitable Trust corruption cases.
The Anti Corruption Commission recently moved court and resumed the proceedings of the GATCO and Barapukuria coal mine graft cases against the former prime minister.
A Dhaka court on Monday asked Khaleda to appear before it in the Barapukuria coal mine case.
The Sonali Bank had earlier implicated the wife and son of another accused, Mozaffar Ahmed, in the loan default case following his death.
The bank filed the case on Oct 2, 2013, accusing the defendants of defaulting on repayment of a loan of Tk 45.59 crore.
The other defendants are Dandy Dyeing Limited, Khaleda’s eldest son Tarique Rahman, her late brother Sayeed Iskander’s wife Nasrin Ahmed, sons Shams Iskander and Shafin Iskander, and daughter Sumaiya Iskander, Tarique’s business partner Giasuddin Al Mamun, his wife Shahina Begum, and Kazi Galib Ahmed.
According to the case details, Dandy Dyeing commenced business in 1992 with a capital of Tk 30 million.
In February 1993, it took a loan of Tk 131.4 million from Sonali Bank. The bank disbursed a fresh loan in 1996 on an application by Sayeed Iskander.
The outstanding loan stood at around Tk 427 million on Apr 4, 2010.
The case was filed as the defendants did not repay the loan despite being served notices.
