Misappropriation of Around Tk 5 cr
ACC sues 2 bankers, 2 grain importers
Two officers of Khulna branch of Prime Bank and two local importers have been sued on charge of misappropriating Tk 4 crore 92 lakh and 5,386 through forgery.
Deputy assistant director of Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) Aminul Islam lodged two separate cases in this connection on Sunday with Khulna Sadar police station.
The four FIR-named accused in the two cases are manager Syed Zahirul Huq and foreign exchange in-charge Kazi Robiul Islam of Khulna branch of the bank, importers Sheikh Abu Rashed and Sheikh Abdur Rahman.
The two officers have been accused in both the cases while the two importers sued separately in two cases.
Importer Sheikh Abu Rashed is proprietor of Messers Ming Hua Trade International and Messers Sajeda Wahab and Sons while importer Sheikh Abdur Rahman is proprietor of S.R. Enterprise of Khulna city.
The complainant stated in his cases that Messers Sajeda Wahab and Sons withdrew Tk 41,17,908 from Khulna branch of Prime Bank on November 16 in 2005 for opening Letter of Credit (LC) to import foodgrains from India.
On the same day, Messers Ming Hua Trade International withdrew Tk 2,75,41,947 from the same bank also for opening LC to import foodgrains from the same country.
These two firms withdrew the aforesaid amounts against a deposit of only Tk 94,295 as security money.
But none of the importers repaid the amount to the bank after selling the imported foodgrains and thus misappropriated Tk 3 crore 15 lakh and 65,560 by forged means, the complainant said in his cases.
In the second case, importer S.R. Enterprise withdrew a sum of Tk 1,76,39,826 from the same bank from March 31 till November 16, 2005 in the name of opening 10 LCs to import foodgrains from India. But this importer also did not repay any amount after selling the imported foodgrains.
The complainant stated in his FIRs that the two bank officers helped the importers misappropriate this huge amount of money by forged means.
The complainant further said that these two bank officers were suspended from their services in 2006 after their involvement in the misappropriation came to light. They are now on the run.
Contacted, the complainant said that he filed the cases against the absconding bank officers and the importers with the Khulna Sadar PS under Sections 409 and 109 of BPC and also under section 5 (2) of Anti-corruption Act-1947 as their involvement in the crime was confirmed after vigorous investigation.
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