COURT CORRESPONDENT

Destiny-2000 director Farha Diba was sent to jail in a money laundering case yesterday.

Earlier, she was sentenced -- in absentia -- to eight years imprisonment in the case.

Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-4 of Dhaka passed the order.

Farha surrendered before the court through her lawyer, seeking bail in the case, said sources.

The same court on May 12 sentenced her with the imprisonment and fined her Tk 40 crore, in default of which she will have to serve two more years in jail.

The judge also sentenced Destiny-2000 managing director Mohammad Rafiqul Amin, to 12 years and fined Tk 200 crore, in default of which he would have to serve three years in prison.