Five Grameenphone employees have filed a case against the private mobile phone operator on charges of misappropriating Tk691 crore by forgery.
The case was filed yesterday with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Yusuf Hossain under sections 406, 417,418,426, 477(a) and 34 of the penal code.
After recording deposition from the complainants, the court directed the officer-in-charge at Vatara police station to investigate the matter and submit a report before the court.
According to the case statement, the defendants embezzled the money from the Grameenphone Workers Profit Participation and Welfare Fund through forgery in 2011 and 2014. They also assaulted workers in different ways when they asked for their money.
The complainants alleged that in 2010, government announced for distributing 5% profit of the company among the labourers and workers and it was also passed at a meeting of Grameenphone’s board of directors. But the defendants later embezzled the money through forgery.
The defendants are Grameenphone Ltd, its chief executive officer, the board of trustee chairman for Grameenphone Workers Profit Participation and Welfare Fund, and trustee board members Quazi Mohammad Shahed Ahmed, Md Mainur Rahman Bhuiyan, Md Mainul Kader and Ahmed Manjuruddawla.
The five complainants are transport workers Md Mehadi Hasan, Md Masud Hasan, data entry operator Md Shohag, office assistant Md Afzal Hossain and optical fibre operator Nizam Uddin.
