ACC brings back more money from S'pore

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FE Team | Published: August 28, 2013 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

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The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has brought back another amount of US$ 956,387.4 (Tk 74 million) siphoned off by Arafat Rahman Koko, the youngest son of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia, to Singapore, reports UNB The ACC received the money from the Singapore authority through a stolen money recovery account on August 13 this year. But, the money recovery was disclosed in a programme at a city hotel on Tuesday. Attorney general M Mahbubey Alam handed over a symbolic check of the Oversees Bank of Singapore to ACC chairman M Badiuzzaman at the programme in this connection. On November 22 last year, the anti-graft body in the first phase recovered Singaporean dollar (SGD) 2.041 million (Tk 131.5 million) siphoned off by Koko. In January this year, the ACC also recovered an amount of Tk 1.5 million (15 lakh) as interest of SGD 2.04 million siphoned off by Koko. Earlier, the ACC opened a bank account - 'Stolen Asset Recovery Account'-with the Ramna corporate branch of Sonali Bank to recover stolen money from abroad. Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the programme, attorney general M Mahbubey Alam said the ACC recovered the whole amount of the money (Tk 21 crore) siphoned off to Singapore by Koko. He said many politicians earlier had laundered money abroad and the government is working sincerely to bring the stolen money back home. "We came to know that they (politicians) laundered money to Hong Kong, London (UK), Malaysia and Greenland and other countries," he said.