Kuwait’s top appeals court has sentenced an former Bangladeshi lawmaker Mohammed Shahid Islam Papul to seven years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of Kuwaiti Dinar 2.7 million in a high-profile human trafficking case, reports Gulf News.
The Court of Cassation also ordered the defendant be deported after serving the sentence.
The court also handed down similar jail terms to undersecretary of the Kuwaiti interior ministry Major General Mazen Al Jarrah and Hassan Al Khedr, a manpower director, and ordered their dismissal from their government posts on charges of taking bribes in the same case.
Last February this year, a Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced Shahid to four years in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of Kuwaiti Dinar 1.9 million.
He was charged with receiving money from dozens of workers in return for bringing them in from Bangladesh to Kuwait through a company he managed with illegal assistance from Kuwaiti officials charged in the case.
He has reportedly amassed Kuwaiti Dinar 5 million worth of assets in the Gulf country.
The Kuwaiti public prosecution contested the rulings handed down to the prime defendant and convicted accomplices and demanded tougher penalties.
