Destiny MD Rafiqul freed from jail after 12 years

Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin has been freed from jail after 12 years.

Rafiqul Amin came out from Dhaka Central Jail at around 6:35pm on Wednesday.

Earlier, a Dhaka court sentenced Destiny Group Managing Director Rafiqul Amin and 18 others to 12 years' imprisonment in a case.

Dhaka Special Judge's Court-4 Judge Md Rabiul Alam delivered the judgement.

However, Rafiqul Amin has been in prison for the past 12 years. In the verdict, the court said that time of imprisonment will be deducted from the sentence. In that case, MD Rafiqul Amin's sentence has been served. Now, it will be verified whether there is any other case against him, the court said.

Other accused are  his wife Farah Diba, Destiny Group Chairman Mohammad Hossain and Destiny-2000 President Lt Gen (retd) Harun-Ar-Rashid. 15 persons are absconding.

On May 12, 2022, a Dhaka court sentenced all 46 accused, including Rafiqul Amin, his wife Farah Diba, and Destiny-2000 president Lt Gen Harun (retd), to different terms of imprisonment in the money laundering case and fined them over Tk 2,300 crore.

Rafiqul Amin was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment with Tk 200 crore fine and his wife Farah Diba was awarded eight years of imprisonment in this case.

On 31 July 2012, two separate cases were filed with the Kalabagan Police Station against Rafiqul and other officials of Destiny on charge of embezzling money from the investors in the name of Destiny Multipurpose Cooperative Society and Destiny Tree Plantation Limited and laundering it.