Blitz editor Shoaib jailed for swindling money

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the English weekly Blitz, to four years' rigorous imprisonment in a case filed for misappropriating Tk 69 lakh.

The court, however, acquitted his wife Shahnaz Chowdhury. It also fined the convict Tk 10,000, in default, to suffer six more months in jail.

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Police arrested Shoaib from his Uttara residence on November 8, 2012 after his business partner Sajjad Hussain had filed the case, accusing Shoaib of swindling him out of the money.

The verdict came while Shoaib is serving in jail after he had been sentenced to seven years' rigorous imprisonment on January 6, 2014 in a sedition case filed over his involvement with Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.