The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved charge sheets against six senior Rupali Bank officials including its former managing director and three businessmen over allegations of embezzling Tk184 crore by mortgaging railway land.
The charge sheet was approved by the commission at its regular meeting on Tuesday, confirmed ACC Deputy Director (Public Relations) Muhammad Arif Sadeq.
ACC Assistant Director Saiful Islam would soon file a charge sheet in the court, he said.
Former Rupali Bank MD M Farid Uddin, former DMD Kazi Md Neyamat Ullah, former head of Rupali Sadan corporate branch Siraj Uddin, Deputy General Manager and former principal officer of the bank Kamal Uddin, former DGM Syed Abul Mansur, Assistant General Manager and former principal officer Abu Naser, Reazul Haque and three businessmen -- HR Spinning Mill MD Habibur Rahman, Chairman Shahin Rahman and Director Masudur Rahman.
The bank’s industrial loan unit’s AGM Manoranjan Das was accused in the case but was later exempted from the charges.
On August 4, 2019, Assistant Director SM Rashedur Reza filed an embezzlement case at the commission’s integrated district office-1.
According to the commission’s probe report, the accused mortgaged 117 decimal of the railway land to Rupali Bank through forgery.
On the other hand, Tk941,595,887 was withdrawn out of the total amount of Tk96 crore including Tk6 crore and Tk20 crore sanctioned in two phases from the bank under the industrial loan scheme.
However, the amount of the interest rate has increased to Tk90.63 crore till September 30, 2021.
Regarding the interest rate, they have been charged with embezzling a total of Tk1,847,895,887, according to the report.
The commission approved the filing of the charge sheet against the accused under Section 409/420/109 of the Penal Code and Section 5 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act No 2 of 1947.