The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned eight officials from the head office of Prime Bank Ltd for questioning over alleged embezzlement of around Tk4 crore.
The commission sent a notice signed by Assistant Director Gulshan Anwar to the bank’s managing director yesterday, asking the officials to appear before the commission on November 1 as witness, an ACC official to the Dhaka Tribune, requesting anonymity.
The eight officials are Deputy Managing Director Habibur Rahman, former deputy managing director SM Anisul Kabir, Vice-President Mojahid Kabir, Executive Vice-President Moshiur Rahman, Assistant Vice-President Gias Uddin Ahmed, Senior Executive Officer Fazlur Rahman Patwari, Executive Officer Lutfun Nahar and Senior Officer Abdus Sabur.
Among these officials, Fazlur Rahman filed a case with Motijheel police station on March 9 accusing former senior executive officers Mir Saiful Islam and Shahjahan Ali Sarker, and former staff Salman F Rahman and Julfikar Ali of embezzling Tk3,92,19,014 from the bank through cheating and tampering with vouchers.
The case was later transferred to the ACC. It has already collected all documents of the investigation conducted by police, the ACC official said.
