Bangladesh's Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday charged the youngest son of ex-premier Khaleda Zia with laundering more than 2.7 million dollars through bank accounts in Singapore, police said.
"The ACC has filed a case of money laundering against Arafat Rahman Koko. He is charged with laundering 2.8 million Singaporean dollars (1.8 million US dollars) and 932,000 US dollars in different accounts in Singapore," police official Salahuddin Akaze told AFP.
In December, Singaporean authorities froze assets worth 1.6 million US dollars associated with a company Koko established in 2004 after the Bangladeshi government asked them to launch an investigation.
More money linked with Koko, 36, has been found since then, Akaze said.
Koko was arrested in April 2007 on graft charges.
He is the younger of Zia's two sons and has a lower profile than his brother, Tareque, who is seen as his mother's political successor.
Both sons were arrested by the last army-backed government as part of its crackdown on corruption.
Koko, who has acute respiratory problems, left for Thailand in July, while Tareque, who his lawyers allege has a spinal injury after being tortured in custody, left for Britain in September.
Koko owns several companies and freight and transport vessels within Bangladesh and was a patron of the country's cricket board.
Zia's Bangladeshi Nationalist Party (BNP) did poorly in December 29 elections, winning only 29 seats out of a possible 300.
Source: AFP
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