[6] On 26 December 2019, Khokon collected Dhaka South City Corporation nomination papers from Awami League.

[8][9] A case was filed against Sayeed Khokon and several other for allegedly embezzling 350m BDT by the Gulistan Fulbaria City Supermarket-2 owners' association president Md Delwar Hossain in December 2020.

[10][11] The money had been paid for allocation of shops in block A between 2015 and 2019 which were later demolished for violating the original design of the complex.

[13] Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Dhaka Court on 28 June 2021 order the accounts of Khokon and his wife, sister, and mother be frozen.

[14] The accounts were frozen after a request from the deputy director of the Anti-Corruption Commission Jalal Uddin Ahmed who was in charge of the investigation on Khokon.

[15] He blamed his successor, Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, for instigating the actions of the Anti Corruption Commission.

[17] He also alleged his successor kept millions of city corporation funds in Modhumoti Bank Limited, which Taposh owned.

Many shopkeepers in Dhaka South City Corporation complained that Sayeed Khokon personally took money from them to make their shop leases permanent.