Destiny MD sentenced to 3 years’ jail

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Rafiqul Amin, managing director of Destiny Group, to three years’ imprisonment in a case filed for not submitting his wealth statement to Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).

Judge Shamim Ahammad of Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-8  gave the verdict and also fined Rafiqul Tk 50 lakh.

If Rafiqul fails to pay the fine within 30 days, the district collector can realise it by auctioning his properties, ordered the judge. 

This is the first judgement against Rafiqul Amin since his arrest in 2013, confirmed Mahmud Hossain Jahangir, a public prosecutor of the Anti-Corruption Commission.

According to the case statement, ACC filed a case against Rafiqul with Ramna Police Station on September 8, 2016, for not submitting his wealth statement.

Trial of the two money laundering cases against Rafiqul and several others is now pending with Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-4, according to court sources.

On July 31, 2012, ACC filed the cases with Kalabagan Police Station against Rafiqul and 21 others for laundering Tk 3,285.26 crore by cheating investors.

Later, Rafiqul was sent to jail after he surrendered in connection with the cases.

He has been in jail since then.