Shahed accused in NRB Bank scam case
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday filed a case against chairman of Regent Hospital Mohammad Shahed and three others for misappropriating about Tk 1.51 crore of NRB Bank.
Other accused are, Regent Hospital Managing Editor Ibrahim Khalil; former vice-president at SME Division of NRB Bank Wahid-bin-Ahmed, and former principal officer of the bank Sohanur Rahman.
ACC's Assistant Director Sirajul Hoque filed the case against them as the anti-graft body has primarily found their involvement in misappropriation of about Tk 1.51 crore between November 2014 and January 2018.
Shahed came under the limelight after he was found involved in issuing fake Covid-19 test reports following a Rab raid at Regent Hospital.
He was arrested from Satkhira on July 15.
Three accused in Basic Bank embezzlement case
Meanwhile ACC filed another case yesterday against three for embezzling about Tk 9 crore from Basic Bank.
The accused are Titan Apparels' managing director Hasibur Rahman and director Arshia Atik and manager (dismissed) of BASIC Bank Gulshan Branch S Asif Ahmed.
ACC's Assistant Director Mahbubul Alam filed the case with its Integrated District Office in Dhaka.
According to the case statement, the accused collaborated to misappropriate Tk 8.96 crore between 2008-2012.
Around Tk 4,500 crore was siphoned out of the state-run bank between 2009-2013 when Abdul Hye Bacchu chaired its board, found a Bangladesh Bank inquiry.
Yet the investigators could not finish probing the 56 cases filed in 2015 over misappropriation of Tk 2,036 crore.
On July 14, 2014, the BB sent a report to the ACC, detailing how money was embezzled from that bank through fake companies and dubious accounts.
Besides, former finance minister AMA Muhith in parliament on several occasions expressed anger as he could not take steps against all involved in the scams at Basic Bank and another state-run institution, Sonali Bank.
On February 24, 2016, he told the House that 27 bank officials, 56 organisations and eight surveyor firms were involved in the Basic Bank loan scams.
He said external audit firms appointed by the BB and Basic Bank detected involvement of Bacchu in granting irregular loans.