Ex-manager of Teletalk sentenced to 12yrs in jail for money laundering

A Dhaka court today sentenced a former manager of Teletalk Bangladesh Limited to 12 years' rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over laundering Tk 5.74 crore.

Judge Md Badrul Alam Bhuiyan of the Special Judge's Court of Dhaka handed down the sentence in absence of the convict Shah Md Zubayer in the case.

The judge fined him Tk 11.5 crore which will be confiscated in favour of the state.

The judge issued an arrest warrant against him as he went into hiding after getting bail from the court.

The punishment of the convict will be effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, the judge said.

 The judgment was given after cross-examination of 10 prosecution witnesses, including complainant of the case.

According to the case statement, it was alleged that when he was in service of Teletalk Bangladesh Ltd Zubayer misappropriated Tk 5,74,70,687 through illegal means and laundered the money from 2005 to 2015.

Following the incident, ACC Deputy Ditector Md Nasir Uddin filed a case against Zubayer on October 3 of 2017.

After an investigation, ACC Assistant Director Mujibur Rahman submitted a charge sheet against Zubayer on June 18 of 2018. The court framed charges against the accused on June 13 of 2019.