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A former communications minister in Bangladesh who is in jail on bribery charges was sentenced to a further 10 years Thursday after being found guilty of amassing more than a million dollars illegally, a state prosecutor said.
Nazmul Huda was also found guilty of concealing wealth information, for which he was given a two-year jail term to run concurrently, special public prosecutor Mosharraf Hossain Kazal said.
"The anti-corruption court also fined him 10 million taka (145,000 dollars)," he said. Huda's wife Sigma Huda, who was a special United Nations rappoteur, was acquitted of the charges, Kazal added. Huda, one of the key ministers during the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led coalition government from 2001-06, was found guilty of amassing 80 million taka on Thursday.
Last year he was jailed for seven years after being convicted of taking a 24 million taka bribe from businessmen. Sigma was also jailed for three years for her role in that case.
Huda also faces other graft charges. More than a dozen former ministers, lawmakers and their family members have already been sentenced to between five and 20 years in jail by the fast-track anti-graft courts set up by the military-backed government. Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January 11, 2007, when elections were cancelled after months of violence over claims of vote-rigging.
An army-backed government took power on January 12 and launched a massive crackdown on corruption a month later. More than 150 top politicians including two former prime ministers - Khaleda Zia of the BNP and her bitter rival Sheikh Hasina Wajed of the Awami League - have been detained as part of the crackdown. The new government has pledged to clean up the country's politics before reinstating democracy through fresh elections in late 2008.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2008

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