Mosharraf on 3-day remand
A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on a three-day remand, a day after he was detained in a money-laundering case.
Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin granted the remand, acting on an appeal filed by Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Director Syed Ahsan Ali.
Earlier in the morning, Mosharraf was quizzed at the anti-graft body's Segunbagicha office, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.
At the court, Mosharraf said the case was meant to harass him.
"The money mentioned in the case was not laundered. I earned the money when I was abroad," he told the court.
On Wednesday, the law enforcers picked up Mosharraf from his Gulshan residence following the case filed on February 6, for laundering over Tk 9.53 crore to the United Kingdom.
An investigation by the graft body had found that the amount was amassed in between 2001 and 2006 and kept in a joint bank account of Mosharraf and his wife Bilkis Akhter with Lloyds TSB Offshore Private Banking.
Mosharraf is the lone accused in the case, but the role of Bilkis will be examined during investigation.
Meanwhile, BNP Joint Secretary General Rizvi Ahmed yesterday termed the case “false” and demanded Mosharraf's unconditional release.
"Mosharraf was arrested to divert people's attention from the corruption committed by the government in Hall-Mark, Destiny and Padma bridge graft cases," Rizvi said.
He was speaking at a press conference at the party's Nayapaltan office in the capital.
The “illegal” government was conspiring to cover up the offences by its former lawmakers and ministers, Rizvi added.
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