A Bangladeshi national charged with illegally engaging in the sale of foreign worker quotas has received a lighter sentence after the Prosecutor General's (PG) Office entered into a plea agreement with him.

Shahadath Hussain was charged with illegally engaging in the sale of foreign worker quotas and laundering the money.

He had been living in the Maldives since 2014 on four different work permits. He has six accounts with the Bank of Maldives (BML), including three dollar accounts.

Since October 2019, he has circulated MVR 8 million in his accounts and has been convicted of money laundering and bribery.

He spent 10 months and 17 days in police custody and was sentenced to two years and six months in jail and a fine of MVR 53,400.

But under the agreement with the PG Office, he will only face six months in prison with a fine of MVR 21,600.

Police earlier said they were conducting separate investigations into the Immigration employees and other individuals involved in the case.