Dhaka Feb 8 (IANS) A Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced former Prime Minister and the country s main opposition leader Khaleda Zia to five years in prison on corruption charges.
Amid heightened security across Bangladesh the special judge s court convicted the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) chairperson of embezzling $252 000 in foreign donation for the Zia Orphanage Trust reports bdnews24.
In the same case Khaleda s son Tarique Rahman and four others have been sentenced to 10 years in jail.
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