The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Dhaka

Fugitive former Foreign Minister M Morshed Khan was yesterday sentenced to 13 years' rigorous imprisonment for accumulating wealth illegally and hiding information about it.

A special court that deals with high-profile corruption cases under the current chase against corruption suspects in the interim period pronounced the judgment, trying him in absentia.

Judge M Sirajul Islam also fined Khan, also a business tycoon, to pay Tk 10 lakh or serve one year more in prison in default.

On December 10 last year, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the case against him with Gulshan Police Station.

Besides, the court in the high-security parliament complex ordered confiscation of his ill-gotten property worth over Tk 82 lakh.

"The sentences come into effect after his arrest or surrender to the court," says the court order.