A Kuwaiti court yesterday sentenced Bangladeshi lawmaker Kazi Shahidul Islam Papul and four others to four years in jail in a bribery case.

Issuing the judgment, the court, headed by Counselor Abdullah Al-Othman, also fined them 1.9 million Kuwaiti dinars.

The others sentenced include Kuwait's interior ministry's Assistant Under-Secretary Maj Gen Mazen Al-Jarrah, and Nawaf Al-Mutairi, Hassan Al-Khader and one Bangladeshi named Mohammad Rashidul Islam, report Kuwaiti newspaper Alqabas and other sources.

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