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Bangladesh court convicts former PM’s son
The ‘fugitive’ eldest son of Bangladesh’s opposition leader and former premier Khaleda Zia was on Thursday sentenced to seven years in prison by a court here for laundering nearly USD 2.5 million, overturning a lower court’s decision to acquit him in the high-profile graft case.
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Tarique Rahman, 48, who is senior vice president of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), was sentenced by the two-member bench of the High Court for siphoning off the money to Singapore between 2003 and 2007 when the party-led four-party righting alliance government was in power.
“He (Rahman) has been tried in absentia as he did not appear despite being summoned... the court earlier declared him fugitive” a court official told reporters after the verdict.
Rahman, who has been living in London since 2007, was charged under Money Laundering Act. The court also slapped Taka 200 million fine on him.
According to one of the pending charges, Rahman allegedly masterminded a fatal grenade attack in 2004 on a rally of the then main opposition and now ruling Awami League killing 24 people. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina narrowly escaped the assault but with permanent hearing impairment.
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