Bangladesh鈥檚 Anti Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, his wife Rukmali Zaman and 24 others for embezzling Taka 25 crore borrowed from the United Commercial Bank.
The ACC filed the case against the accused with the Chattogram district integrated office of the commission, deputy director of the commission Md Aktarul Islam told media in Dhaka.
According to the allegations, the accused persons borrowed the money from the United Commercial Bank, Jubilee road branch, Chattogram, against the name of Syed Nurul Islam, a relative of Syed Kamruzzaman, chief operating officer of Aramit Group owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, falsely personifying Nurul Islam as a businessman.
The accused persons on October 10, 2019 opened a bank account in the name of a fake business establishment and provided false and fabricated documents to the bank branch to take the loan.
The bank authority, in connivance with other accused, without verifying the deed and documents, sanctioned the loan.
The board of directors of the bank where Rukmali Zaman, wife of Saifuzzaman Chowdhury was the chairman, approved the loan, defying 17 negative observations.
Of the sanctioned money, Taka 24 crore was transferred to one Abdul Khaleque through three different commercial banks, which was used to repay another loan of Taka 30 crore, which was borrowed earlier.
Yasinur Rahman, an employee of Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, later withdrew the remaining amount of Taka one crore.