Dhaka, May 29 -- The special flight carrying Sohail and his wife left from Dhaka on Friday, said Mofidur Rahman, the chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh or CAAB.

Sohail's younger brother Salman F Rahman is the founder and vice-chairman of Beximco.

Former foreign minister M Morshed Khan and his wife, whose daughter is married to Salman's son Ahmed Shayan Fazlur Rahman, went to London by another chartered plane on Thursday.

Morshed, who stepped down from the BNP as a vice-chairman last year, is "seriously" ill and will undergo medical check-up in the UK, one of his aides said.

"The flights were connected. They had chartered two planes. They [Morshed and wife] took one and Salman F Rahman's elder brother took the other...