Discharge-stage scrutiny requires strong suspicion, not trial-level evidence, where records and statements link accused to money-laundering.

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....Discharge-stage scrutiny in a money-laundering prosecution is confined to whether the available material creates a strong suspicion reasonably connecting the accused with the alleged offence; it does not permit a roving enquiry or trial-level weighing of evidence. Statements indicating that funds were arranged and delivered at a co-accused's request, rather than through ordinary business, together with the absence of contemporaneous proof of goods supplied, supported the allegation. Bank records and statements from persons involved in arranging and delivering cash provided prima facie corroboration that the accused knowingly assisted a process connected with proceeds of crime. The High Court upheld refusal of discharge and dismissed the criminal revision.....