Arafat Rahman Koko's lawyer Mahbub Uddin Khokon yesterday said Koko was not involved in laundering money as he does not have any foreign bank account or company abroad.
The attorney general's statement that a Singapore court on Tuesday directed the authorities to send back to Bangladesh around Tk 8 crore laundered by Koko, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's younger son, is not true, he said.
“The government staged this drama to tackle the present political situation,” he told journalists at the Supreme Court Bar Association.
Koko was in jail when the alleged laundered money was deposited in the account of Lim Siew Cheng, a Singaporean businessman, at United Overseas Bank in Singapore, he said.
The money was laundered by Habibur Rahman, a Bangladeshi living in Dubai, but he was not made an accused, he said, adding that the “false” case was filed to damage the image of Khaleda and her family.
Attorney General Mabubey Alam yesterday told journalists that the money was laundered by Koko and Ismail Hossain Saimon, son of former BNP minister Akbar Hossain.
Koko set up a firm, Fairhill Consulting Ltd, in Singapore with the help of Cheng, who admitted to the Singapore court that he had deposited the money laundered by Koko, he said.