The Attorney General decided to imprison the Bangladeshi MP accused in money laundering, human trafficking, visa trading and bribery for a period of 21 days in the central prison, reported a local daily. The Public Prosecutor decided to continue the imprisonment of the remaining accused, and to release the owner of a company on bail of KD2,000 dinars.
Earlier, the Public Prosecutor had approached the Central Bank to freeze the bank accounts of the Bangladeshi lawmaker and businessman Mohammed Shahid Islam, and his company.
He is a sitting Member of Bangladesh Parliament and so is his wife, and he runs four companies in Kuwait which provide cleaning services, and employ 9,000 cleaning workers. He had 34 government contracts.