Staff Reporter :
A writ petition has been filed on Monday with the High Court seeking its directive upon the respondents to take appropriate steps for bringing back of the laundered money from foreign banks including the Swiss Bank by various Bangladeshi individuals and organizations.
Supreme Court lawyers Abdul Kaium Khan and Subir Nandi Das filed the petition as a public interest litigation.
Mr Subir Nandi said that they might place the petition in the High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim.
In the petition they prayed to the court to issue a ruling upon the respondents to explain as to why their inaction and failure to bring back the laundered money from foreign banks including the Swiss Bank should not be declared illegal.
The petitioners at the same time prayed to the court to issue a directive for the formulation of a special committee to monitor and control the money laundering and terrorism financing of Bangladeshi nationals. Finance secretary, prime minister office secretary, attorney general, commerce secretary, foreign secretary, home secretary, law secretary, Anti-Corruption Commission, Bangladesh Bank governor and inspector general of police, among others, have been made respondents in the petition.
