Ex-RHD engineer get 7-yr jail for graft
Wednesday, 2 April 2014
A court in the city sentenced Abdul Malek, former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department, and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2006.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Jahurul Haque passed the order Wednesday, according to a news agency.
The court also fined him Tk .10 million, in default, to suffer one year more rigorous imprisonment.
The court also ordered freezing of his FDR of Tk 31 million at Dhanmondi Branch of Standard Chattered Bank and confiscation of a five-storey building in Pallabi, four flats at Dhanmondi and Gulshan areas in the capital.
The court acquitted Ambia Khatun, wife of Abdul Malek, and ordered freezing of her FDR account of Tk 3 million.