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Published: 26 Apr 2021 09:31 PM BdST
Updated: 26 Apr 2021 09:31 PM BdST
Disgraced former MP Mohammad Shahid Islam alias Kazi Papul will have to serve three more years in Kuwaiti jail for human trafficking and money laundering. );
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An appellate court in the Middle-Eastern country extended his jail term to seven years, local newspaper Al-Qabas reported on Monday.
It also sentenced Kuwaiti MP Salah Khorshid, who was acquitted of charges of taking bribes from Shahid, to seven years in jail.
Another Kuwaiti MP, Saadoun Hammad, was Shahid’s co-accused in the trial. The appellate court upheld Hammad’s acquittal.
It extended the sentence of Major General Mazen Sheikh Mazem Al Jarrah, former assistant under-secretary of the interior ministry in Kuwait, and two other Kuwaiti officials to seven years from four years for abetting the former Bangladeshi lawmaker’s unlawful work.
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Published: 18 Feb 2021 07:20 PM BdST
Updated: 18 Feb 2021 07:23 PM BdST
The Dhaka Union of Journalists or DUJ has expressed concern over ‘unethical’ pressure on bdnews24.com to remove old reports. );
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“Creating unethical pressure on bdnews24.com and other media is a matter of concern,” President Quddus Afrad said at a meeting of their executive council on Thursday, according to a DUJ statement.
Toufique Imrose Khalidi, editor-in-chief of bdnews24.com, spoke extensively at a press conference on Wednesday on “bizarre” attempts to muffle journalism by the influential people.
bdnews24.com said it had published news on court proceedings and orders in cases filed against valiant freedom fighter HBM Iqbal, chairman of Premier Group and a former MP, and members of his family in the past one and a half decades as had other mainstream media.
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January 13, 2021 19:46 IST
Trinamool Congress tries to distance itself from the former MP; Opposition says the ruling party used his plane for election campaign, calls for probe.
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Suvendu Adhikari, who had recently switched over to the BJP, claimed Mr. Singh s dealings with the Trinamool leaders should be probed. File Photo
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Trinamool Congress tries to distance itself from the former MP; Opposition says the ruling party used his plane for election campaign, calls for probe.
The arrest of former Trinamool Congress MP K D Singh in a money laundering case triggered a fresh verbal duel in the poll-bound West Bengal on Wednesday with the BJP demanding questioning of top brass of the Trinamool Congress in the case, while the ruling party denied any association with Mr. Singh for long.