The Anti-Corruption Commission is going to place a charge-sheet against 30 people, including 11 Prime Bank officials on charges of embezzling around Tk93 crore.
The commission in a regular meeting yesterday approved the placing of the charge-sheet against those bank officials among which seven were suspended for graft allegations, an ACC official told the Dhaka Tribune.
During investigation, the ACC found that a group of bank officials scheming with each other had embezzled an amount of Tk92,65,31,000 crore from the bank through fake loan accounts and by misusing bank passwords.
The accused bank officials who are set to face charges are suspended Executive Officer Kamrul Ahmed Ferdous, Senior Officer Nurul Amin, Senior Executive Officer SMA Majid, Trainee Assistant Muhammed Shamsul Alam, ex-manager Izbahul bar Chowdhury, temporarily suspended Senior Executive Officer Miran Hossain, First Assistant Vice-President Nasir uddin Bali, Senior Executive Officer Kamrul Islam, Senior Executive Officer Saleh Uddin, First Assistant Vice-President Motaher Hossain and Vice-President Jakir Hossain.
The other accused include owner of New SK Enterprise Sazedur Rahman, KS Enterprise owner M Shahadat Islam, SK Enterprise owner Mahmudul Islam, SL Enterprise owner Kawser Ali, Tri Tech 69 owner Tasnim Alam, Branch Solutions directors Zahidul Islam and Amirul Islam, Bangladesh Water Development Board official Abul Hashem and Sub Valley Securities Limited Managing Director Mahbub-E-Elahi.
In March 2012, the Prime Bank filed a case against its official Kamrul Ahmed Ferdous on charge of Tk48.78 crore embezzlement from the bank.
