Dhaka, Jan 23 (UNB) – A court here on Wednesday sentenced six people, including chairman and managing director of multilevel marketing (MLM) company Unipay2u, to 12 years rigorous imprisonment in a money laundering case.

The six convicts are Chairman Md Shahiduzzaman Shahin, managing director Mohammad Muntasir Hossain, Executive Director Masudur Rahman, Advisor Monjurul Ehsan Chowdhury, General Manager AM Jamshed Rahman, and Director HM ArshadUllah.

Among them, Shahiduzzaman Shahin, Masudur Rahman and Monjurul Ehsan Chowdhury remained absconding.

The court also fined them Tk 2702 crore each. 

On January 25, 2011,the then assistant director Md Towfiqul of the Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case with Shahbag Police Station against the officials of Unipay2u, a so-called multilevel marketing company, for launderingTk 420, 14,29663 from different banks.

Police framed charges against them on June 22, 2011 and they were indicted in the case on July 6, 2015. 

After examining all the records and 23 witnesses among 27, Judge Abu Syed Dilzar Hossain of special judge court-3 handed down the verdict.