Dhaka: Senior vice president of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's elder son, Tarique Rahman, was on Thursday sentenced to seven years' imprisonment and fine in a money laundering case.

The bench of Justice Enayetur Rahim and Justice Amir Hossain quashed the trial court's verdict of November 2013 acquitting the opposition party leader in a Taka 20.41 crore money laundering case, bdnews24.com reported. Addressing an appeal by the anti-graft body -- Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) -- the High Court also slapped a Taka 200 million fine on Rahman, who lives in London.