Ex-Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia. File Photo

DHAKA, May 25, 2025 (BSS) - A Dhaka court today convicted and sentenced expelled Jubo Mohila League leader Shamima Nur Papia to four years in jail in a money laundering case.

Judge Md Monjurul Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge Court-8 pronounced the judgment in absence of the convict. The court also fined her Taka five lakh, in default of which she will have to suffer three more months in jail. 

The court also acquitted four, including Papia's husband Mofijur Rahman alias Sumon Chowdhury, of the charges as the prosecution could not prove the allegations against them, court clerk Foijur Rahman told BSS.

According to the case documents, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on February 22, 2020, arrested Papia and her husband, along with two of their accomplices, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with counterfeit banknotes and a large amount of foreign and local currencies. 

RAB later raided their two luxurious flats in the capital's Indira Road area and recovered a foreign-made pistol, two magazines, 20 bullets, five bottles of foreign liquor and Taka 58.41 lakh in cash, among other things.

The money laundering case was filed against Papia and her husband with the Gulshan Police Station.

Investigation officer and Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector Ibrahim Hossain on December 27, 2021, filed the charge-sheet against five including Papia. The court on August 21, 2022, framed charges in the case.