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Published : 22 Mar 2015, 01:08 PM
The First Money Loan Court issued the order for them to appear in a hearing fixed on Apr 12 on Sunday.
On Mar 16, the same court implicated the four following a move by state-owned Sonali Bank. The same day Apr 12 was fixed for framing the issues of the case.
The bank’s lawyer, Jahangir Alam, said at the time they had asked for inclusion of the four as defendants in the case as Khaleda’s son Arafat Rahman Coco, a director of Dandy Dyeing, died in Malaysia in January.
Coco’s wife Sharmila Rahman Sithi and daughters Zahia Rahman and Zafia Rahman along the BNP chief 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.
The three-time prime minister has already been summoned by a court in the coal mine graft case.
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 in 2013, accusing the defendants of defaulting on repayment of a loan of Tk 455.90 million.
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.
