Allegation false, baseless: Moosa

Staff Correspondent: Moosa bin Shamsher alias Prince Moosa, an international weapons trader and chairman of Datco Group, has denied the allegation of siphoning off Tk 51000 crore out of the country.

 

“The allegations against me are false, fabricated and baseless,” he said these while speaking to the reporters after coming out from the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) headquarters at Segunbagicha in the city on Thursday, where he was grilled.

 

Prince Moosa said, “I earned the money in overseas by businesses. I did not take it from the country. The media reports in this regard are baseless and false”

 

About the media report, he mentioned, “Any news item of a newspaper will not be treated as the vital source of a allegation or proving document of a trial.

According to sources, a report was published in Business Asia on Moosa bin Shamsher in June this year. It said he has $7 billion in a Swiss Bank.

Shamsher was born in Faridpur district on Oct 15, 1950. He started his business career as a manpower exporter but international media usually portray him as an arms dealer.

He attracted huge media attention after offering the Labour Party and Tony Blair 5 million pounds as campaign donation during UK’s 1997 general elections.

risingbd/Dec 18, 2014/Rahman/Aminul