DHAKA: A Dhaka court placed BNP standing committee member Dr Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on a 3-day remand in a money laundering case.

Magistrate Shamsul Arefin passed the order after hearing on the case on Thursday afternoon.

Earlier, Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Deputy Director Ahsan Ali pleaded a three-day remand at Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate`s Court.

Earlier in the morning, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) interrogated the BNP leader at the commission’s Segun Bagicha office in the capital.

On Wednesday, a team of ACC and Gulshan Thana Police jointly conducted a drive and raided Khandaker Mosharraf’s Gulshan residence and picked up him around 10:00pm Wednesday for his alleged involvement in laundering money.

The anti-graft body further said that the BNP leader deposited around Tk 9.5 crore illegally in two UK-based banks in 2001-2005 while he was minister of BNP-led government. Mosharraf owned a huge amount of wealth during that period, ACC sources added.

BDST: 1551 HRS, MAR 13, 2014