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Tarique Rahman is a Bangladeshi politician serving as the Senior Vice Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and is the eldest son of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and late President Ziaur Rahman. He has been living in self-imposed exile in London since 2008 and was convicted in absentia by Bangladeshi courts on corruption and money laundering charges, which he denies as politically motivated.