The Anti-Corruption Commission will soon press charges against 38 people, including 16 officials from Prime Bank Limited, on a charge of embezzling around Tk96 crore from the bank.
A regular meeting of the commission approved the charge sheet yesterday after an ACC investigation had found that the bank officials, in league with the others, had embezzled Tk95.70 crore from several branches of the bank between 2002 and 2012.
The accused bank officials include former manager of Dilkusha Branch Izbahul Bar Chowdhury, former vice-president Mohammad Aminul Islam, former executive officer Kamrul Ahmed, suspended vice-president of the head office branch HM Zakir Hossain, and first assistant vice-presidents Motaher Hossain and Mohammad Nasir Uddin Bali.
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.
ACC officials said the accused would be charged as the officials, in league with each other, embezzled the money by misusing passwords. During 2002 to 2012, Dilkusha branch former executive officer Kamrul Ahmed misused his and other officials’ passwords, and embezzled the money using the IT system.
On March 2012, the Prime Bank had initially filed a case against Kamrul for embezzling Tk48.78 crore. Later the ACC conducted an investigation into the matter and found 38 people were responsible for the irregularities.
The ACC meeting yesterday also recommended departmental action against 15 Prime Bank officials including its Senior Vice-President M Baki Billah, suspended senior executive vice-president Khandker Iqbal Hossain, Senior Assistant Vice-President M Shafiquzzaman Bhuiyan and Assistant Vice-President Shah Mohammad Mohsin.
