A special Dhaka court has sentenced six persons, including chairman and manager of unipay2u, to 12-year rigorous imprisonment each and fined Tk 2,7.02 billion on charge of money laundering through multi-level marketing deception.

Judge Abu Syed Dilzar Hossain of Special judge court-3 passed the order on Wednesday (Jan 23), reports BSS.

He also asked the accused to deposit the fined amount in favour of the state within 180 days.

The accused six persons are Chairman of unipay2u Md Shahiduzzaman Shahin, Managing Director Mohammad Muntasir Hossain, Executive Director Masudur Rahman, General Manager AM Jamshed Rahman, Advisor Monjurul Ehsan Chowdhury and Director HM Arshad Ullah.

Among them Muntasir, Arshad Ullah and Jamshed were present at the court. Others are absconding and the court issued arrest warrant against them.

The Anti-Corruption Commission on January 25, 2011 filed the case against the officials of unipay2u, a multilevel marketing company, for amassing money by cheating people.

Deputy Director of ACC submitted charge-sheets against them on June 22, 2011, followed by indictment on July 6, 2015.

The trial proceedings recorded testimonials of 23 witnesses.