, April 16 -- A Dhaka court Wednesday sentenced Abdul Malek, a former driver of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), to five years imprisonment while his wife Nargis Begum to three years imprisonment in a graft case.

Judge of the Dhaka Special Judge Court-6 Zakaria Hossain passed the order.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) field the case against them for amassing wealth beyond known sources of income and concealing wealth information.

The court also fined them Tk 20,000, in default, to suffer three months more in rigorous imprisonment.

ACC prosecutor Asaduzzaman Rana said the court also asked to confiscate the wealth of Malek worth Tk 1.10 crore.

Assistant director of ACC's head office Syed Nazrul Islam filed a case...