BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed claimed that Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) being politically motivated approved charge sheet against him and his brother with a view to assassinating his character at home and abroad.
The ACC approved the charge sheet on Wednesday on the basis of first information report filed against him and his brother Manjur Ahmed with Gulshan Thana on December 17 on charge of grabbing an abandoned residence worth Tk 300 crore.
But Moudud said that the case against them would be proved ‘false’ and ‘baseless’ in any court. The senior BNP leader told it to the media in front of the Annex Building of the Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday noon.
The government and the Rajdhani Unnyan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) filed two separate writs in the Supreme Court challenging two verdicts of the High Court (HC) about the status of the house in question.
According to the judgment, Moudud says, the house is not an abandoned property. The writs are yet to be disposed of.
All the allegations, which have been included in the case record and the charge sheet, are false, baseless and fake, he went on.
The owner of the house, for which the case was field, Barrister Moudud Ahmed said, was Austrian citizen Mrs Inge Flatz, adding that he was only a lawyer of her.
In 1980, the then government returned the house to Flatz by a registered deed upon the request of the Austrian Government and he (Moudud) was not in the state power at that time, he says.
On December 15, 2005, his brother Manjur Ahmed living in London owned the residence as per the verdict of the HC, the BNP leader continued.
“According to the verdict, all the documents of the house are true and that his brother is the owner of the residence”, he says.
The house, he said quoting the verdict, was not an abandoned property and the government had no claim over it. “So, the house belongs to my brother”.
