The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday sent letters to Bangladesh Bank and Islami Bank Bangladesh for second time, seeking information regarding the Tk 3,300 crore loan scam.聽
聽The ACC in the letters sought the audit reports of loans along with the related documents of 11 companies of Nabil Group from the central bank and Islami bank.
A team of the commission, led by its deputy director Yasir Arafat, sent the two letters as part of the inquiry over the embezzlement of Tk 3,300 crore in the name聽 of loan in favour of three fake companies, said the ACC officials.
The ACC sent the letters requesting the BB and Islami Bank to provide the information within seven working days for the relevant documents.
The commission sought information regarding the loans of Islami Bank鈥檚 Chattogram鈥檚聽 Chaktai branch customer, M/s Murad Enterprise; Khatunganj branch customer, Century Food Products Limited; and Jubilee Road branch鈥檚 customer, United Super Trader.
The ACC secretary Khorsheda Yasmeean聽 on Monday said that, 鈥楢 complaint of embezzlement of about Tk 3,300 crore from the related branch of Islami Bank PLC in Chittagong came to the ACC.鈥�
A three-member inquiry team has been formed, and the team sent letters to the authorities concerned for the sake of inquiry, she said.
The ACC letter stated that the commission was conducting an inquiry against the owner of the United Super Traders, Golam Kibria Chowdhury, and others over the allegations of misappropriation of 3,300 crore of taka in the name of a loan from Islami Bank.
In the letter, the information of 11 companies of Nabil Group was sought from the Islami Bank鈥檚 Gulshan Corporate Branch in Dhaka, Rajshahi and New Market Branch, Rajshahi, and Pabna Branch.
Nabil Group companies include Nabil Naba Foods Limited, Nabil Cold Storage, Nabil Feed Mills Limited, Nabil Auto Rice Mills, Nabil Auto Flower Mills, Shimul Enterprises, Naba Agro Trade International, Anwara Trade International, Naba Pharma Limited, Nabil Green Crops Limited, and International Product Palace.
The ACC officials said that it sent the first letter聽to the BB in November 2023, seeking the documents. But in January, the central bank said that as the inspection of the mentioned institutions was ongoing, the prepared report would be sent after the completion of the inspection.
According to the inspection report of the BB in the past year, loans of Tk 3,300 crore were given to Century Food Products, United Super Traders, and Murad Enterprises through those three branches of Islami Bank.
The central bank, however, did not find the existence of these institutions at the address used in the loan documents. In these nominal papers, new debts are created in the name of the companies, and the previous liabilities are adjusted.
