Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 28 Jan 2021 07:35 PM BdST
Updated: 28 Jan 2021 08:00 PM BdST
A criminal court in Kuwait has sentenced Bangladeshi MP Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul to four years in jail for trafficking human and laundering money.
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Judge Abdullah Al Osman delivered the verdict on Thursday, according to the Kuwaiti media Al-Qabas and Al-Rai.
The court also jailed Major General Mazen Sheikh Mazem Al Jarrah, former assistant under-secretary of the interior ministry in Kuwait, and another Kuwaiti official for four years for abetting the Bangladeshi lawmaker’s unlawful work.
All the convicts have been fined 1.9 million Kuwaiti dinar each.
Two Kuwaiti MPs, Saadoun Hammad and Salah Khorshid, were Shahid’s co-accused in the trial.