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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

[chottala.com] Anticorruption Commission sues Coco over money laundering

ACC sues Coco over money laundering
 
 
Tue, Mar 17th, 2009 4:59 pm BdST
Dhaka, Mar 17 (bdnews24.com) – 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 bdnews24.com ACC deputy director Abu Sayeed filed the case at around 4:30pm.

Arshed said the ACC will investigate the case and if found guilty, he may be sentenced to seven years in jail.

The case, filed under Money Laundering Prevention Act 2009, 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 bdnews24.com 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.

bdnews24.com/pc/bd/1651h.
 
 
 

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images

Former prime minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Coco (C) is escorted by policemen as he leaves the chief magistrate court following his arrest along with his mother, in Dhaka, 03 September 2007. Police in emergency-ruled Bangladesh arrested former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the latest high-profile figure to be hauled in as part of a massive anti-corruption campaign. Zia, 63, and her younger son Arafat Rahman Coco were taken from their Dhaka home to court and then remanded in custody pending investigation by the army-backed government's anti-graft body, officials said. Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January when elections were cancelled after months of violence over vote-rigging allegations made by Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party against Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP From Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images.
18 months ago: Former prime minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia's younger son Arafat Rahman Coco (C) is escorted by policemen as he leaves the chief magistrate court following his arrest along with his mother, in Dhaka, 03 September 2007. Police in emergency-ruled Bangladesh arrested former prime minister Khaleda Zia, the latest high-profile figure to be hauled in as part of a massive anti-corruption campaign. Zia, 63, and her younger son Arafat Rahman Coco were taken from their Dhaka home to court and then remanded in custody pending investigation by the army-backed government's anti-graft body, officials said. Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January when elections were cancelled after months of violence over vote-rigging allegations made by Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party against Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP
 

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