ACC withdraws allegation against Salman F Rahman

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has withdrawn an allegation of forgery of land documents against Awami League leader Salman F Rahman and five officials of Beximco Holdings Ltd and four former officials of AB Bank.
The commission decided to submit the final report of the case as 'mistake of fact' as the allegation was not proved during the scrutiny of related records and documents, said ACC Director General Hanif Iqbal at his regular press briefing yesterday.
"Being satisfied with the final report of the investigation officer (IO) of the case, the commission under its power bestowed in Section 32 of the ACC Act-2004 and 15(1) of the ACC Rules-2007 has approved it," the DG said.
The ACC filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on October 1, 2007 against AB Bank and Beximco Holdings Ltd officials over the allegation that they rescheduled a loan of Tk 191.39 crore showing forged documents and wrote off about Tk 182.77 crore illegally in collusion with each other to gain financial benefit.
The Beximco Holdings Ltd officials are ASF Rahman, chairman of the company, Salman F Rahman, vice chairman, directors Iqbal Ahmed, MA Kashem and Osman Kaiser Chowdhury, and Binoy Krishna Nath, secretary of the company.
The four former officials of AB Bank are CM Kayes Sami, Abu Hanif Khan, DMA Awal and Towhidul Islam.