DHAKA/KUWAIT CITY, 27 April, 2021 (TON): The former Bangladeshi MP Mohammad Shahid Islam otherwise known as Kazi Papul will have to serve three more years in Kuwaiti jail for human trafficking and money laundering.

The media reported on Monday that an appellate court in the Middle-Eastern country extended his jail term to seven years.

Besides human trafficking and money laundering, the Kuwaiti prosecutors charged him with torturing employees of his company, Marafie Kuwaitia, based on the complaints from five Bangladeshi nationals subjected to trafficking.

Shahid won in the 2018 election as an independent candidate. He also launched a successful bid to bring his wife Salina Islam to parliament as a reserved-seat MP.

Shahid was arrested in Kuwait in June 2020 and sentenced by a criminal court in January this year.

Bangladesh parliament revoked his membership from Laxmipur-2 seat the next month.

However the court also sentenced Kuwaiti MP Salah Khorshid, who was acquitted of charges of taking bribes from Shahid, to seven years in jail, while, another Kuwaiti MP, Saadoun Hammad, was Shahid’s co-accused in the trial.

The appeals court also extended the jail of Major General Mazen Sheikh Mazem Al Jarrah, former assistant under-secretary of the interior ministry in Kuwait, and two other Kuwaiti officials to seven years from four years for assisting in Shahid Islam’s unlawful work.