A writ has been filed with the High Court seeking a directive to submit the list of top drug dealers.
At the same time, the writ has sought instructions to investigate the case of laundering Tk5,000 crore annually through drug trade.
Supreme Court lawyer Subir Nandi Das filed the writ in the concerned branch of the High Court on Tuesday.
Later, the petitioner said that the hearing of the writ is likely to be heard at High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat.
The petition also sought to issue a rule why the failure of the defendants to prevent the laundering of billions of money through the drug trade should not be declared illegal.
Some 12 organizations and individuals including secretaries of law ministry, finance ministry, home ministry, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Bangladesh Bank Governor, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU), Inspector General of Police, National Board of Revenue (NBR) and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have been made defendants.
The writ also attached news of different newspapers published on an Unctad report that stated that drug traders launder over $481mn annually in Bangladesh.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has released a report saying drug trafficking in Bangladesh is estimated to have resulted in an annual average of $481 million in outgoing illicit financial flows (IFFs) between 2017 and 2021.
The Unctad study, published on Thursday, stated that the calculation encompasses the trafficking of substances such as methamphetamine tablets (yaba), heroin, and synthetic opioids like buprenorphine and phensedyl.