The High Court yesterday fixed November 9 to deliver verdict on an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) revision petition against the exemption of BNP leader and former foreign minister M Morshed Khan and his wife and son from a money laundering case. 

The bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice JBM Hassan earlier heard arguments on the petition.

The HC's June 5 order, asking authorities concerned to freeze the three's bank accounts with Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, will remain in effect until the verdict, ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan told The Daily Star.

The HC on that day had also asked Morshed, his wife Nasrin Khan and son Faisal Morshed Khan to refrain from transferring the 16 million Hong Kong dollars in the accounts elsewhere till further orders, he said.

Khurshid said ACC filed the case in 2013 and gave a final report to a Dhaka court in July 2015 saying they did not launder money. The court accepted the report on April 15 this year and exempted the three.

Hong Kong police, who had frozen the accounts in 2008 under an administrative order, sent a letter to ACC asking if legal proceeding were ongoing as they planned on opening the accounts, he added.

ACC then submitted two petitions to the Dhaka court seeking to revive and reinvestigate the case. The court rejected the petitions on June 2 and ACC moved the revision petition on June 5 challenging the rejection, he said.