A special court yesterday sentenced former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s assignment officer Dr Firoz Mahmud Iqbal to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in a graft case filed in connection with misuse of government vehicles.
Judge Ashraf Hossain of the Special Court-5, set up on the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban premises, also fined Firoz Tk 36 lakh. He will have to serve one more year behind bars if he failed to pay the fine.
As Firoz is absconding and was tried in absentia, his sentence will come into effect the day of his arrest or surrender.
Anti-Corruption Commission
(ACC) Assistant Director Syed Iqbal Hossain filed the case with Gulshan Police Station on November 13 last year accusing Firoz of using five vehicles of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) and Essential Drugs Company Ltd for personal purposes in the name of Prime Minister’s Office.
The case statement said that the fuel and maintenance expenses of the vehicles caused a loss of over Tk 36 lakh to the government exchequer.
Earlier on May 13, another special court sentenced Firoz to 10 years’ jail for amassing wealth beyond known sources of income. His wife Imtiaz Begum was also handed down three years’ imprisonment for abetting him in the offence.
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