The Prevention of Money Laundering Act court on Thursday rejected the bail application filed by the Pune based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan. However, the court has not revealed the grounds of rejection of the application.
Special public prosecutor, advocate Ujjwal Nikam said, “The grounds are not yet clear. But we had argued that the defence counsel’s claims that the prosecution is suppressing the facts was totally wrong. The prosecution has enough evidence to prove that money was laundered by the accused.”
The bail application filed by Mr Khan reads, “A case was registered against Hasan Ali in January 2007, and immediately in the same year, he received a letter from an official United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), clarifying that there was only one account owned by him and it had only `60,000. The defence had forwarded the letter to the enforcement directorate. However, the Enforcement Directorate did not bother to inform the court about the letter. Also, the prosecution is neither denying nor accepting the letter. So in a way trying to suppress the facts in the case. Owing to media as well as the political pressure on the ED, a fake case has been registered against Khan.”