[Bangla Daily Star] The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday pressed money-laundering charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Koko, around eight months after filing of the case.It charged Koko and Ismail Hossain Simon, son of former shipping minister late Akbar Hossain, with siphoning 28.84 lakh Singaporean dollars and 9.32 lakh US dollars out of the country.
ACC Deputy Director Mohammad Abu Sayeed, also investigation officer (IO) of the case, submitted the charge sheet to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court in Dhaka in the afternoon. He showed 23 people as prosecution witnesses.
Simon, whose name was not in the first information report, was included as a charge-sheeted accused, as investigation found his involvement in money laundering. The IO pleaded with the court to issue a warrant for his arrest and orders for attachment of his property. |