A Noakhali court has sentenced a former official of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited to 23 years in prison in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for embezzling over Tk22 lakh from clients of the bank.
The former small business investment scheme supervisor of the bank, Nur Mohammad Bashar, was sent to jail following the verdict on Monday.
Judge ANM Morshed Khan of the Special Judge’s Court also sentenced the man to various other jail terms and fined him under various sections of the Penal Code and the ACC Act.
According to the case statement, Nur Mohammad Bashar misappropriated the sum while he was working for the bank’s Raipur branch in Lakshmipur.
