Dhaka: The suspended acting general manager of Bangladesh Railway (eastern zone), Yusuf Ali Mridha, has been sentenced to five year imprisonment for acquiring wealth by illegal means and hiding information to Anti‑corruption Commission regarding his wealth.

Judge Aminul Islam of the Special Judge Court-9 in Dhaka on Wednesday passed the order in presence of Yusuf Ali Mridha.

Yusuf was charged with two counts of forgeries in relation to his wealth. On Wednesday he was given three years’ jail and fined Tk 15 lakh, in default to suffer two more years, for illegally amassing wealth worth about Tk 40.9910 lakh; and two years’ jail for hiding information about Tk 17.34910 lakh in his wealth statement.

ACC on 9 April 2012 filed the case with the Ramna Police after he along with three others had been arrested by the country’s boarder security forces near Pilkhana in Dhaka on their way to the then railway minister Suranjit Sen Gupta’s house with Tk 70 lakh.

They were on a microbus. Later, Mridha was suspended following the recovery.

ACC launched an enquiry and found dissimilarity between his wealth statements submitted to the commission.