The Anticorruption Commission sued Tuesday Arafat Rahman Coco, younger son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, on charges of money laundering, police said.
The officer in charge of Kafrul Police Station, Salahuddin Arshed, told us ACC deputy director Abu Sayeed filed the case at around 4:30pm.
The case accuses Coco of laundering stolen funds worth nearly US $ 9.32 lakh and Singapore $ 28.85 lakh to Singapore.
An accused in GATCO and other cases, Coco is receiving treatment at Bangkok on parole granted on July 19 last year after he fell sick.
The government extended his parole by a month on Mar 15.
The antigraft body also served a notice earlier in the day on BNP vice chairman and Khaleda's brother Sayed Eskander, giving him just seven days to come up with a statement of his assets and property.
A senior ACC official told us that the notice had already been sent to his home address in the capital's Baridhara.
This is the first such notice issued by the ACC since the end of the military-installed two-year emergency government.
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