A Dhaka court has sentenced the daily Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman to three years imprisonment in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2010.
Third Metropolitan Special Court judge Abu Ahmed Jomadar also fined Tk1 lakh to Mahmudur Rahman. In default, he will have to serve another one month in jail.
According to the case, the former energy adviser to the then prime minister Khaleda Zia in 2001-06, Mahmudur, failed to submit his wealth statement despite several legal notices served to him. He also concealed his source of income.
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Dhaka’s Third Special Court Judge Basudev Roy indicted Mahmudur in the case on April 28 last year.
ACC Deputy Director Nur Ahammad filed the case with the Gulshan police on April 13, 2010. The charge sheet was submitted to the court on July 15 the same year.
Also blamed for instigating violence and spreading religious propaganda, Mahmudur has been in jail since April 11 last year.
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The arrest was made almost four months after he had been sued for publishing reports on Skype conversations between a judge of the International Crimes Tribunal and an expatriate Bangladeshi legal expert.
