BANGLADESH’S Supreme Court acquitted former prime minister Khaleda Zia today, ending the last corruption case against her  and paving the way for her to contest the next general election.

Ms Zia was recently cleared in another corruption case brought under former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted by a mass uprising last August after 15 years in power.

Today, the Supreme Court overturned a 10-year jail sentence handed down by the High Court in 2018 on charges of embezzling sums equivalent to £205,000 in donations meant for an orphanage trust established when Ms Zia became prime minister in 1991.