Dhaka, July 14 -- MP Shahid Islam bribed 5.70 lakh dinars (Tk 15.70 crore) two Kuwaiti lawmakers to facilitate his manpower business in the oil-rich Gulf country, reported Kuwaiti media on Monday, quoting the country's Public Prosecution Office.

Kuwait public prosecution addressed to the National Assembly, regarding the lifting of immunity from the two members of Kuwait parliament, Saadoun Hammad and Salah Khurshid, in the case of human trafficking in which the Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahid is accused.

The latter made confessions during the investigation of providing financial sums to Hammad and Khurshid in exchange to facilitate transactions to recruit workers from Bangladesh by obtaining exceptions from the relevant Government Ministrie...