Scam allegations against me 'completely false': Sur
Former Bangladesh Bank Deputy Governor SK Sur Chowdhury today said that the allegations raised against him were "completely false".
Chowdhury made the comment responding to a query while talking to media after a hearing of the fact-finding committee of Bangladesh Bank, which now investigates the recent financial scandals that occurred at some non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs).
He, however, declined to comment further.
Earlier, two close associates of PK Hader confessed to a Dhaka court that Chowdhury had assisted them to conduct the financial scams.
Halder, who is believed to living in Canada escaping from Bangladesh, misappropriated a huge amount of fund from four NBFIs and laundered the money abroad using 30 organisations, owned by him and his associates.
Along with Chowdhury, SM Moniruzzaman, another former deputy governor, and M Mahfuzur Rahman, a former executive director, also faced the hearing at the BB headquarters in Dhaka.
They played different roles in monitoring NBFIs before getting retirement from the central bank.
Talking to journalists, Moniruzzaman said that there was no concrete allegation against him.
"I have come here as per the requirement of the committee," he said.
The committee is working on the scam held in Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFC).
In a 2016 probe, the BB found some former directors of the BFIC to be largely responsible for the institution's financial crisis.
The financial health of the BIFC, established in 1998 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Maj (Retd) Abdul Mannan, had started to decline since 2008.
The committee will investigate scams held in other NBFIs consecutively.
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