UNB, Dhaka
A special court trying high-profile corruption suspects Thursday sentenced detained former state minister for power Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku for nine years in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
He was sentenced to 2 years simple imprisonment for concealing his wealth and 7 years rigorous imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally through “abuse of power”.
Convict Tuku will have to serve seven years in jail, as both the sentences run “concurrently”, court sources said. Handing down the sentences, Judge M Ashraf Hossain also fined him Tk 50 lakh, in default, to suffer one year more in prison. [Read more]