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Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul was part of an organised gang and he allegedly acted like a mafia boss who extorted money from the poor and low-income Bangladeshi migrant workers in Kuwait, reported the media there.
On Thursday, a court in Kuwait sentenced Papul, an independent lawmaker from Laxmipur-2, to four years in prison and fined him 1.97 million Kuwaiti dinars (around Tk 55 crore) in a bribery case. He was accused of acting like a mafia boss, demanding taxes from the poor and low-income workers. Witnesses in the case offered evidence of the Bangladeshi MP s grip on compatriot workers in Kuwait, The Times, a local newspaper, reported on Thursday.