A court has sentenced Ujjwal Alamgir Hossain alias Sayed Ahmed, the owner of recruiting agency ‘Sayed Romania Overseas Limited’, to five years of rigorous imprisonment in a case of embezzling Tk 2.85 million by promising to send people abroad.
Dhaka Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Zakir Hossain announced the verdict on Tuesday (September 22). Two other accused in the same case, Ujjwal Alamgir’s wife Ashafia Begum and brother Sharif Ahmed, have been sentenced to two years in rigorous imprisonment each.
Bench assistant of the concerned court, Sayem, said that in addition to the prison sentence, Ujjwal Alamgir has been fined Tk 100,000. In default of payment of the fine, he will have to serve another six months of non-communal imprisonment. On the other hand, Ashafia Begum and Sharif Ahmed have been fined Tk 10,000 each and sentenced to another month of non-communal imprisonment in default.
Ujjwal Alamgir was produced before the court from the jail before the verdict was announced. After the verdict was announced, he was sent to jail on a warrant of arrest. The court issued a warrant of arrest along with a warrant of arrest against the other two accused as they were absconding after going out on bail.
It is known from the case documents and verdict that the accused entered into a contract with the plaintiff and witnesses by promising to send people abroad through ‘Said Romania Overseas Limited’. Then, they received a total of 28 lakh 50 thousand taka from them. However, the accused later embezzled that money without sending them abroad.
After a lengthy investigation and testimony, the charges brought against the accused under the relevant sections of the Foreign Employment and Immigration Act, 2013 were proven beyond doubt. In view of this, the court sentenced the three accused to various terms of imprisonment and fines.