The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against seven people, including an assistant general manager of Agrani Bank PLC, on charges of embezzling Tk 20 lakh in the name of a loan with forged documents.
ACC assistant director Sohrab Hossain filed the case with its integrated district office in Gopalganj, accusing them of embezzling the money, said ACC deputy director Aktarul Islam.聽聽
The accused are Agrani Bank assistant general manager Shafiqur Rahman, principal officer Mujahidul Islam, Rezaul Karim, a staff member of the deputy commissioner鈥檚 office in Gopalganj, his wife Papiya Begum, and his sister Parveen Akhtar, Agrani Bank鈥檚 lawyer Sourendra Nath Mondal, and bus worker Arman Mollah.
According to the case document, Rezaul Karim, proprietor of M/S Rezaul Traders, applied for a loan of Tk 10 lakh in 2012 to the Agrani bank鈥檚 Municipal Super Market branch in Gopalganj on behalf of M/s Rezaul Traders.
The then loan officer, Mujahidul Islam, and branch manager, Shafiqur Rahman, recommended sanctioning a Tk 8 lakh loan in favour of the applicant.
Later, the regional office of Agrani Bank approved a loan of Tk 7 lakh against a mortgage of 7 decimals of land under Sadar Thana in Gopalganj.
The loan of M/s Rezaul Traders, however, was later increased to Tk 20 lakh in 2013 against a mortgage of 28.48 decimals of land, but they submitted forged documents for the land.
In collusion with each other, the accused took the loan and embezzled the public money, said the case statement.
