Ex-mayor Khoka, 3 others jailed for 10 years
A Dhaka court on Wednesday sentenced former mayor and BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka and three others to 10 years of simple imprisonment in a corruption case.
Dhaka Divisional Special Judge Mizanur Rahman Khan pronounced the verdict.
The court also fined Khoka Tk 20 lakh and the others 10 lakh each.
The other convicts are : Abdul Baten, former president of Dhaka City Corporation Supermarket Shop owners' Association in Banani, Mahmudul Hassan Azad, general secretary, and AHM Tareque, former manager of the market's parking lot.
Mahmububul Alam, assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station on February 15, 2012.
UNB adds: According to the prosecution, DCC invited a tender in 2003 to lease out Banani Unique Complex's basement as car parking.
The DCC had been deprived of over Tk 30.82 lakh from February, 2003 to February 2011 as then mayor Khoka in connivance with other accused stayed the tender process.
On November 29 2015, a court framed charges against the BNP leader and three others in the case.
On June 24 2015, a lower court issued a warrant for the arrest of BNP leader Khoka as he did not appear before it during hearing on the day.
