<h1>Misuse of investigative agency alleged as political tool to target opposition leadership and undermine democratic opposition.</h1> The National Herald case is portrayed as a politically motivated invention to divert attention from governmental failures and to tarnish the freedom movement's legacy. The statement alleges partisan misuse of an investigative agency to pursue a selective 'witchhunt' against opposition leaders and their families, contests the basis of money laundering charges by highlighting the absence of transferred funds and lawful debt-to-equity conversion, and characterises such prosecutions as an abuse of state machinery aimed at muzzling the opposition.