Former minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain's brother was arrested by the Faridpur police in the early hours of Tuesday in a Tk 2,000-crore money laundering case.
Faridpur police chief Md Alimuzzaman said Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar was nabbed from the Bashundhara residential area of Dhaka around 3am.
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Babar was the co-chairman of the incumbent committee of the district Awami League. Earlier, he was the chairman of the Faridpur Sadar upazila.
Details will be revealed at a press briefing by the Faridpur district police at Kotwali police station around noon, said additional SP Jamal Pasha.
On March 3 last year, the criminal investigation department (CID) filed a chargesheet against 10 people, including Babar, brother of former local government, rural development and co-operatives (LGRD) minister Mosharraf Hossain, in the case.
CID's assistant superintendent Uttam Kumar Biswas submitted the chargesheet in the Dhaka metropolitan magistrate's court.
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The other accused in the case are Sajjad Hossain Barkat, former president of city Awami League, and his younger brother Imtiaz Hasan Rubel, former president and minister of district Juba League, APS AHM Fouad, former president of city Awami League Khandaker Nazmul Islam Levi, Juba League leader Ashikur Rahman Farhan, former general secretary of the district Swechasebak League, Fahad bin Wazed alias Fahim, and Juba League leaders Kamrul Hasan David, Mohammad Ali Didar and Tariqul Islam Nasim.