DHAKA, 2 February, 2021 (TON): An official petition has been moved in the High Court to seek directions in taking the appropriate steps to recover the huge amount of the laundered money in the offshore accounts.

Supreme Court lawyers Abdul Qayyum Khan and Subir Nandi Das filed the plea on Monday.

The petition ordered directing the respondents to apply to Switzerland’s central bank to freeze all the assets of the controversial overseas businessman, Moosa Bin Shamser.

 It also calls for the formation of a special investigation unit to monitor and regulate money laundering or financing of terrorist activities by any citizen or organization.

Speaking to reporters afterward, lawyer Subir Nandi said the virtual bench of Justice Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Mohi Uddin Shamim's may hear the petition.

The copy of the writ petition had been received, AKM Amin Uddin Manik, the deputy attorney general of the bench, said on Monday.

The writ petition requested an order for the disclosure by the respondents of any information about money laundering and funds secretly parked in foreign banks, especially Swiss banks.

It also looked for the appropriate laws and legal frameworks to be enacted In order to curb money laundering, financing of terrorist activities, and tax evasion.

According to the sources, the news reports have been attached with the petition that further looks for the rule that would ask the respondents’ failure to recover the money smuggled by the Bangladesh nationals to foreign banks should not be declared beyond the authority legal authority of the officials, as many as 15 government authorities, including the secretaries to the finance, home, foreign and law ministries along with the Anti-Corruption Commission and governor of Bangladesh Bank.

The decision is awaited for the case is highly observed by the world's eyes.