Khaleda Zia, Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Social gathering and former Prime Minister | Photograph Credit score: ANI
Bangladeshi tax authorities on Monday (August 19, 2024) determined to unfreeze the financial institution accounts of Bangladesh Nationalist Social gathering chairwoman Khaleda Zia, 17 years after banks have been ordered to freeze them.
The Nationwide Board of Income (NBR) has ordered banks to unfreeze the accounts of NBP Chairman Zia, Each day Star The newspaper reported.
In August 2007, the NBR’s Central Intelligence Cell ordered banks to freeze the accounts of the BNP chairman, who has been elected Prime Minister of Bangladesh twice since 1990.
The choice was based mostly on a advice from a panel shaped throughout the then military-backed interim authorities, a senior NBR official stated.
Since then, his accounts have remained frozen and the BNP has repeatedly requested that they be unfrozen.
The most recent transfer comes after a mass rebellion ousted Sheikh Hasina, Khaleda’s long-time rival, on August 5, ending 15 years of rule by Bangladesh’s Awami League. An interim authorities led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus was sworn in on August 8.
Ms Zia, 79, was launched from jail after Hasina, 76, fled to India on August 5.
Mrs Zia served as Prime Minister of Bangladesh from March 1991 to March 1996, and once more from June 2001 to October 2006.
The NBR stated it acquired a request from Khaleda’s lawyer looking for to unfreeze the accounts.
“As there are not any pending tax issues associated to her, now we have beneficial the banks to unblock all her accounts. Now we have requested them to take quick motion and submit a compliance report,” the official stated.
