The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday approved two separate charge sheets against 13 people, including former National Bank Limited directors Ron Haque Sikder and Rick Haque Sikder, in two cases filed on charges of money laundering and corruption.
The charge sheets were approved at a meeting of the commission at its headquarters in the capital Dhaka, said ACC deputy director for public relations Md Aktarul Islam.
Earlier, the commission assistant director, Ferdaus Hassan, also investigation officer of the cases, submitted the charge sheets to the commission for approval.
The other accused in the charge sheets are NBL鈥檚 former three managing directors Shah Syed Abdul Bari, ASM Bulbul, Chowdhury Mustak Ahmed, former additional managing director MA Wadud, former executive vice-president Md Mahfuzur Rahman, former senior assistant vice-president Mohammad Rezwanul Haque, former assistant vice-president Md Shamsul Alam, current three vice-presidents Uzzwal Kumar Paul, Subir Chandra Kar, and ANM Ahsan Habib and senior assistant vice-president Tariqul Islam Khan.
According to the ACC investigation, the two Sikder brothers 鈥� Rick Haque and Ron Haque 鈥� in connivance with the other accused used huge amount of foreign currencies through their credit cards abroad, defying rules and circulars issued by the Bangladesh Bank in this connection, despite having insufficient balance in the foreign currency accounts from 2017 to 2021.
Ron Haque spent $60,92,225, equivalent to about Tk聽50 crore, abroad through his credit card at that time while Rick Haque used $26,22,499, equivalent to about Tk聽21 crore, from his credit card abroad.
They later tried to adjust the money to the bank through money laundering, according to the ACC investigation.
The commission director, Benzir Ahmed, on March 31 in 2024 filed two separate cases against Rick Sikder and 11 officials and Ron Sikder and 11 other officials of the National Bank over taking fraudulent loans through credit cards and money laundering.
