A court here on Wednesday sentenced Abdul Malek, former chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department, and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission in 2006.
Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Mohammad Jahurul Haque passed the order on Wednesday.
The court also fined him Tk one lakh, in default, to suffer one year more rigorous imprisonment.
The court also ordered freezing of his FDR of Tk 3.1 crore at Dhanmondi Branch of Standard Chattered Bank and confiscation of a five-storey building in Pallabi, four flats at Dhanmondi and Gulshan areas in the capital.
The court also acquitted Ambia Khatun, wife of Abdul Malek, and ordered freezing of her FDR account of Tk 30 lakh.
According to the case statement, Abdul Malek and his wife acquired illegal wealth of Tk 3.1 crore and five flats in between 1974 and 2006.
SM Akter Hamid, ACC inspector, filed the case on June 5, 2006.
Police submitted charge sheet against the couple on June 15, 2011.
Source: UNB Connect
