The Bangladesh government has written to the UK administration to extradite BNP leader Tarique Rahman, who has been convicted in two graft cases and faces trial for several other charges.
“Talk with the UK government continues over bringing him back. Bangladesh has sent several letters on the issue,” Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said on Thursday.
Briefing the media on the OIC foreign ministers’ meeting, he said that they were waiting for the UK’s response to decide on the next step.
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique has been living the UK with his family since 2008, when he was released in parole for medical treatment abroad.
Convicted for money laundering, Tarique is standing for his mother as the party’s chief after she was jailed for five years in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case.
He too has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the same charges.
Tarique faces trials on several other charges in Bangladesh, including for the 2004 assassination attempt on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina.