Judge Md Badrul Alam Bhuiyan of the Special Judge's Court of Dhaka handed down the sentence in absence of the convict Shah Md Zubayer in the case.
The judge fined him Tk 11.5 crore which will be confiscated in favor of the state.
The judge issued an arrest warrant against him as he went into hiding after getting bail from the court.
The punishment of the convict will be effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, the judge said.
The judgment was given after cross-examination of 10 prosecution witnesses, including the complainant of the case.
According to the case statement, it was alleged that when he was in service of Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd Zubayer misappropriated Tk 5,74,70,687 through illegal means and laundered the money from 2005 to 2015.
Following the incident, ACC Deputy Director Md Nasir Uddin filed a case against Zubayer on October 3 of 2017.
After an investigation, ACC Assistant Director Mujibur Rahman submitted a charge sheet against Zubayer on June 18 of 2018. The court framed charges against the accused on June 13 of 2019.
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The woman got 27 years imprisonment after plotting with her boyfriend to kill her husband.
A woman will spend the next 27 years in prison for plotting with her boyfriend to kill her husband.
The South African woman, Mapula Florah Manaka, was handed the sentence on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, for orchestrating the murder of her husband, Archie Manaka during an incident.
The Limpopo High court in Polokwane heard that Flora,40, and her boyfriend plotted murder against Archie, 43, who was an IT Specialist in Polokwane.
On 08 April 2020, the deceased was attacked and stabbed several times at his home in Moletjie, Ga-Makweya, in the Seshego policing area outside the City of Polokwane during what was believed to be a house robbery.
When the police arrived at the scene, the deceased's wife reported that three unknown suspects forcefully entered the house, attacked her husband, took an undisclosed amount of money, and laptop, and fled the scene.
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