Arafat Rahman Koko
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court in Singapore directed a local firm Tuesday to return Bangladesh
government around Tk 80 million laundered by BNP Chairperson Khaleda
Zia’s younger son Arafat Rahman Koko and one of his associates.The laundered money was deposited with a company named Fairhill Consulting Limited.
Koko set up the firm in Singapore with the help of a Singaporean citizen, Deputy Attorney General Ekramul Haque Tutul told The Daily Star while informing about the Singapore court decision.
On November 22 last year, the Anti-Corruption Commission said it had brought back around 2.04 million Singapore dollars—equivalent to Tk 130 million—from the firm.
The process to bring back the money began after a Special Judge’s Court in Dhaka sentenced Koko and Ismail Hossain Saimon, son of former BNP minister Akbar Hossain, to six years imprisonment on June 23, 2011. The court also fined them Tk 388.3 million for laundering money to Singapore.
The court directed the government to bring back Tk 200 million laundered by the two from Singapore.
The Attorney General’s office later requested its Singapore counterpart to take legal steps to this end.
Bangladesh’s Attorney General Mahbubey Alam was present in the Singapore court during Tuesday’s hearing, the deputy attorney general said.
It is the first money laundering case in which the government succeeded to recover an amount.
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