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| | Al Jazeera English - News - Former Bangladesh Ministers Held |
 | | Mirza Abbas, a former housing and public works minister, and Mosharraf Hossain, a former civil aviation and tourism minister, were arrested on Sunday. |
 | | The commission published a list of 50 people suspected of corruption on February 18, including politicians, former bureaucrats, trade union leaders and businessmen, and had asked them to submit an account of their wealth by Sunday. |
 | | Abbas was a minister under former prime minister Khaleda Zia during her 2001-2006 term, while Hossain sat in the cabinet of Zia's arch rival, Sheikh Hasina, during her 1996-2001 stint as prime minister. |
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