The extortion trial of the former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has formally begun.
The case centres around the accusation that money was paid to the government for permission to build a power plant.
But the businessman who filed the case told the court that it was not Sheikh Hasina who had demanded the payment, but one of her cousins.
Sheikh Hasina and family members deny receiving payments of about $435,000 from the businessman from 1996 to 2001.
Dozens of high-profile figures have been arrested on corruption charges by the emergency government which came to power with the army's support a year ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7217980.stm
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