The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A special anti-graft court yesterday sentenced former Public Service Commission (PSC) member Mahfuzur Rahman to 13 years' imprisonment for accumulating wealth illegally and concealing the information.

The judge of the Special Court-10 set up on the Sangsad Bhaban premises also fined him Tk 50 lakh. If he fails to pay the money, he will have to serve two more years behind bars, the court ruling said.

The court also ordered the authorities concerned to confiscate his wealth worth about Tk 5 crore 2 lakh.

On September 24 last year, Assistant Director Helal Uddin Sharif of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case with Kafrul Police Station accusing Mahfuz of accumulating wealth illegally and concealing information and giving false information in their wealth statements submitted to the anti-graft commission.