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| Wife of Mirza Abbas jailed for 16yrs |
| 2007-09-03 |
| Afroza Abbas, wife of detained former housing and public works minister Mirza Abbas, was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment yesterday in two tax evasion cases. The second special court for dealing with graft charges also fined her Tk 4.92 crore in the cases. Afroza Abbas, who was tried in absentia, would have to serve only five years in jail, as the verdict said that the sentences would run concurrently. She will, however, have to pay the full amount of the fine or serve one and a half years more in jail. The court also ordered confiscation of her properties worth about Tk 4.60 crore to the state, which Afroza did not show in her tax returns in different years. |
| Posted by:Fred |