Khoka, 3 others jailed for 10 years

A court in Dhaka has sentenced former Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) mayor and BNP’s vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka and three others to ten years in jail in a case filed for corruption in leasing a multi-storey car parking.

Dhaka Divisional Judge Mizanur Rahman Khan on Wednesday passed the order. 

The court also fined Khoka Tk 10 lakh and three others Tk 10lakh.

The three other convicted are then DCC Unique Complex Shop Owners’ Association president Abdul Baten Naki, its general secretary Mahmud Hasan Azad and Good luck car parking manager HM Tarek Arik.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) deputy director Nur Hossain, also investigation officer of the case, submitted a charge sheet against the four accused on 11 November 2012.

On 15 February 2012, ACC assistant director M Mahbubul Alam filed the case with Shahbagh Police Station on charge of misappropriating Tk 30.82 lakh from the car parking project.

According to the prosecution, Dhaka City Corporation invited a tender in 2003 to lease out Banani Unique Complex’s basement as car parking.

The DCC had been deprived of over Tk 30.82 lakh from February 2003 to February 2011 as then mayor Khoka in connivance with other accused stayed the tender process.