The high court convicted 51-year-old Tarique Rahman, overturning a 2013 acquittal by a lower court, and sentenced him to seven years in jail. A Bangladesh court sentenced on Thursday the eldest son of the main opposition leader Khaleda Zia to seven years in prison for money laundering, a move that could end his political ambitions. He was sentenced to seven years in jail and fined 200 million taka, the attorney general said. “The high court said Tarique Rahman influenced political power to help his close friend Giasuddin Mamun to get and then launder 200 million taka ($2.5 million),” deputy attorney general Moniruzzaman Kabir told AFP. “Mamun took the money as a bribe for securing a power plant contract for a construction company and laundered the money to a Singapore account.”Kabir said Rahman had taken 45 million taka from the account.

Source: Hindustan Times July 21, 2016 07:18 UTC