A special judge's court of Dhaka Sunday acquitted former president HM Ershad and his fiancé Mariam Momtaz Marry from money laundering charge in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Bureau about 16 years ago.
Expressing satisfaction at the verdict Ershad told his counsel by phone that he got the justice. 'The case was filed with a political motive,' said Ershad, chairman of the Jatiya Party which is a component of ruling AL-led alliance.
He was not present in the court when special judge Zahurul Haq pronounced the judgment. The prosecution had engaged four investigators in succession but all of them failed to probe that the accused funnelled out Tk 31 crore as complained in the case and no charge sheet was submitted to the court.
The case was filed on 9 September 1995 when Ershad was in jail.
Source : New Age
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