BSS-56 Former GCC Mayor sentenced to one year jail for embezzling money

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Former GCC Mayor sentenced to one year jail for embezzling money

DHAKA, Nov 18, 2020 (BSS) – Former Gazipur City Corporation (GCC) Mayor MA Mannan has been sentenced to one year imprisonment by The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in a case filed by the ACC for embezzling Taka 50 lakh in fake vouchers.
At the same time he was fined TK 50 lakh and the court sentenced him to three more months in jail in default, said ACC lawyer Mahmud Hossain Jahangir today.

He said Judge Syed Kamal Hossain of the Dhaka Divisional Special Judge’s Court pronounced the verdict today in presence of MA Mannan.
According to the allegations in the case, while MA Mannan was the Mayor of Gazipur City Corporation (August 18, 2013 to February 2, 2015), he allegedly fraudulently showed 999 vouchers of grants and expenses and also embezzled more than TK 49 lakh one thousand from the poor fund.

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