Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku
Iqbal Hasan Mahmud Tuku is a Bangladesh Nationalist Party politician and the former State Minister of Power from 2001 to 2006.Career
Tuku served as the State Minister of Power in the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government from 2001 to 2006. Bangladesh Anti Corruption Commission on 21 March 2007 filed a case, accusing him of accumulating 25 million taka through illegal means. On 15 November 2007, he was sentenced by a special court to nine years in jail in the case. He filed an appeal against the verdict on December 2007. On 16 June 2011, he was acquitted in Bangladesh High Court. On 4 December 2011 the Anti Corruption commission filed an appeal against the verdict. His acquittal was scrapped in the Appellate Division on 27 January 2014. He filed an appeal which was disposed in 2016 and a new hearing ordered in the Appellate Division.
