A Dhaka court has sentenced Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of Bangladeshi tabloid The Weekly Blitz, to four years' rigorous imprisonment for misappropriating funds.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mollah Saiful Islam pronounced the verdict on Thursday afternoon.
The court also fined him Tk10,000. In case of default, he will be imprisoned for an additional six months.
The court acquitted his wife Shahnaj Chowdhury, as the court could not find proof of her involvement in the misappropriation.
The case was filed by Sazzad Hossain, chairman of the Bangladesh Centre for International Studies, in October 2012.
According to the case statement, in May 2012, the editor and his wife misappropriated Tk69 lakh from a fund that was to be invested under Shahin Trade.
The then session judge Md Jahurul Islam sentenced Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury to seven years' imprisonment in a sedition case on January 9, 2014.
On November 29, 2003, police arrested him at Dhaka airport, as he was leaving to attend a seminar in Tel Aviv and filed a sedition case against him on January 14, 2004.