The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

BNP leader and former Law Minister Barrister Moudud Ahmed was freed on bail yesterday afternoon from the prison cell of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU).

Major Shamsul Haider Siddiqui, DIG (Prisons) said that the ex-minister of the immediate past four-party alliance government walked out of the BSMMU prison cell at about 5:10pm after securing

bail from the High Court in cases against him.

Barrister Moudud has been facing five graft cases, including one on Niko. The High Court granted him bail in all the cases.

On April 13 last year, the army-led joint forces arrested Moudud from his Gulshan residence after seizin from there 16 bottles of foreign liquors and 32 cans of beer along with 220 pieces of saree allegedly from government relief fund.