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| BD ex-minister jailed for taking bribe |
| 2007-08-28 |
| A Bangladesh court sentenced on Monday former minister, Nazmul Huda, to seven years in jail for taking a bribe of 24 million taka ($350,000) from a construction firm, court officials said. Huda served as communications minister in the government of most recent prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia. The court also ordered HudaÂ’s wife, Sigma Huda, to serve three years in jail for abetting her husband in accepting the bribe, lawyers said. More than 170 senior politicians, including over a dozen former ministers and a son of Khaleda Zia, have been detained for alleged corruption since an army-backed interim government took charge in Bangladesh in January. Several of them, who served under both Khaleda and her rival Sheikh Hasina, also a former prime minister, have already been convicted and sentenced to various prison terms. |
| Posted by:Fred |