The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed two separate cases against 43 people, including S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam, also former chairman of First Security Islami Bank, and the bank鈥檚 former managing director, Syed Wasek Md Ali, on charges of embezzling Tk 1,102 crore by taking loans from the bank in the names of non-existent companies.
ACC assistant director for public relations Tanzir Ahmed told 抖阴精品 that the two cases were filed with the anti-graft agency鈥檚 integrated district office Dhaka-1 following approval of the commission.
Md Ismail, assistant director of the ACC, filed a case against Saiful Alam and 36 others on charges of聽 embezzling Tk 549 crore after taking loan in the name of M/S Safran Trade International from the Jubilee road branch of First Security Islami Bank in Chattogram.
ACC assistant director Mahmudul Hasan filed a case against 31 people on charges of embezzling Tk 553 crore from First Security Islami Bank鈥檚 Anderkillah branch in Chattogram after taking loan in the name of M/S Huda Enterprise.
The other accused are M/S Safran Trade International owner Mahfujul Islam, Huda Enterprise owner Md Alamgir Huda, former FSIB managing director Syed Wasek Md Ali, and its former DMD Md Abdul Kuddus, former EVP SAM Salimullah, former EVP Mohsin Uddin Ahmed, former additional managing directors Kazi Osman Ali, Syed Habib Hasnat, Abdul Aziz and Mustafa Khair, former managing director Md Zahurul Haque, former DMD Masudur Rahman Saha, EVPs Ekramullah and Foyez Ahmed, and former VP Syed Anisur Rahman.
Former FSIB officials AKM Abu Sagir Chowdhury, Md Alamgir Hossain, SM Azharul Islam, Md Iftakhar Uddin, Kaisar Imtiaz, Masud Parvez, Shafayet Ahmed Chowdhury, Md Nasim Gawhar, Alin Nahid Khan, Kazi Latiful Islam, Wahidur Rahman, Hafizur Rahman, Helal Uddin, Md Javed Morshed, Abdullah Al Noman, Amir Hossain, Harunur Rashid, Moktar Hossain, Mosharraf Uddin, Farzana Shammi, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, Farhana Nigar Chowdhury, Jubair Hossain, Morshed Alam, Selim Ullah and Syada Nazma Malek are also among the accused.
Of them, M/S Safran Trade International owner Mahfujul Islam, Huda Enterprise owner Md Alamgir Huda and former FSIB officials Jubair Hossain, Morshed Alam, Selim Ullah and Syada Nazma Malek are accused in a single case. The rest are accused in both the cases.
According to the statements of the cases, the accused in collusion with each other took loans from the FSIB in the names of non-existent companies through abusing power and violating rules and regulations and embezzled the money.
S Alam Group chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam was a close associate of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The ACC has been probing allegations of embezzling a huge amount of money and laundering the money abroad against Saiful Alam and his family members since the fall of the Awami League government amid a mass uprising on August 5, 2024.
On October 7, 2024, the Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court imposed a travel ban on Saiful Alam, his wife Farjana Pervin and 11 other members of his family.
On March 25, the ACC filed two separate cases against Saiful Alam and his wife Farzana Parveen on charges of abusing power and amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1,596 crore.
Saiful Alam allegedly took about Tk 2 lakh crore from a number of banks in names and anonymously during the Awami League regime. A large portion of the funds was allegedly laundered abroad.
