Destiny MD Rafiqul freed from jail after 12 yrs
Destiny Group's Managing Director Rafiqul Amin has been released from jail after 12 years.
He walked out of Keraniganj Central Jail in Dhaka around 6:30pm on Wednesday, January 15, said Md Jahangir Kabir, Deputy Inspector General of Prison.
Earlier, a Dhaka court today convicted and sentenced 19 people, including Rafiqul Amin, to 12-year in prison each in a case lodged over embezzlement and laundering Tk 257.78 crore from the MLM company's tree-plantation project.
However, the court in its verdict said Rafiqul Amin has been in jail for last 12 years and the 12 years he spent in prison will be deducted from today’s sentence. As a result, there is no bar for him to get released.
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