Bank director remanded
A Chittagong court yesterday placed Mohammad Solaiman, director of Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited, on a seven-day remand in connection with a corruption case filed against him on the charge of misappropriating Tk 140 crore.
Rejecting the bail prayer for Solaiman, the Chittagong Metropolitan Magistrate Mashiur Rahman Chowdhury passed the order when Solaiman was produced before the court at around 2:00pm.
Meanwhile, a number of persons accompanying Solaiman obstructed journalists from taking snaps and video footages while he was being taken to the court premises at around 2:00pm. At one stage, they also assaulted three journalists -- Shafique Ahmed Sajib, reporter of private television channel Channel-24, Ahmed Kutub, reporter of national daily Samakal, and Mohammad Rashed, photojournalist of Samakal.
On April 13, Rashed Sarwar, branch manager of the bank's Jubilee Road Branch, filed the case with Kotwali Police Station accusing four persons, including Solaiman, of misappropriating Tk 140 crore loan facilities to SK Steel, and transferring Tk 18.65 crore of this amount to the account of his own business organisation Paradise Corporation Ltd, said Mahmudul Haque Mahmud, public prosecutor (PP) of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).
The other accused include ANM Jahangir, former branch manager of the bank's Jubilee Road Branch, Enamul Haque, chairman of Paradise Corporation Ltd, and Anisul Haque, director of Paradise Corporation Ltd.
The case was later transferred to ACC, said the PP, adding that the rest of the accused are now on the run.
On June 25, an ACC team, led by SM Rafiqual Islam, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, arrested Solaiman from Akram Tower in Bijoynagar of the capital.
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