In a rejoinder yesterday, Saifa said neither she nor her brother Babu is involved in the VoIP business. She also said the report can create unnecessary and inaccurate perceptions about her and her brother.

Meanwhile, Vice President of Orion Group Masudul Islam in a rejoinder protested the reports involving Obaidul Karim and Orion Group, which were published in different newspapers referring to the confessional statements of former lawmaker Mosaddak Ali Falu and former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar.

The rejoinder said Obaidul Karim invested money in a legal way in the daily Amar Desh against shares and the amount was not more than Tk 4.5 crore.

"Obaidul Karim, entrepreneur director of the Amar Desh, or Orion Group did not give any money personally to Mosaddak Ali Falu. He [Karim] granted the money for the Amar Desh against its shares in the legal way," Masudul said, adding an entrepreneur director of a television channel also made such an investment by purchasing its shares.

In another rejoinder, Sabur Khan of Daffodil Computers said he was never involved with illegal VoIP business.

"The published statement said to be made by former state minister Lutfozzaman Babar involving me with illegal VoIP business during the last regime has no basis at all," he said.

OUR REPLY
We stand by our reports as The Daily Star only published the statement of former state minister of home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar that he had given to the Task Force for Interrogation (TFI).