The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested a BASIC Bank official and three businessmen in connection with different cases filed over the BASIC bank loan forgery.
The arrestees are BASIC Bank Assistant General Manager (Head office) Ikramul Bari, and businessmen Syed Hasibul Gani Galib, owner of Emerald Oil industry, Md Akbar Hossain, owner of Asian Shipping BD, and Fayezunnabi Chowdhury, managing director of Farsi International.
A team of ACC, in an overnight drive that ran till Monday morning, arrested the four from Gulshan, Uttara and Dhanmondi areas in the capital.
After their arrest, ACC produced the four accused before the Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate court seeking their remand for interrogation in different graft cases filed with Motijheel, Gulshan, and Paltan police stations over loan forgery.
ACC sought seven-day remand for Ikramul in a case filed with Paltan police station over the embezzlement of Tk25.87 crore while it filed 28-day remand petitions for Syed Hasibul Gani in four cases filed with Motijheel and Paltan police stations.
The anti-graft body filed a seven-day remand petition for Akbar Hossain in a case filed with Gulshan police station over a Tk25 crore loan forgery case while the ACC sought seven-day remand for Fayezunnabi in a case filed with Gulshan police station on charges of embezzling Tk44.48 crore.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Maruf Hossain sent the four accused to jail and fixed March 31 for a hearing on the remand petitions filed by the ACC.
According to the sources, 56 cases have been filed against 120 individuals, including 27 officials of BASIC Bank, for swindling about Tk4,500 crore in the last six years from the state-run bank.