Graft Cases: ACC quizzes former VP of ILFS

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated former vice president of International Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) Nahida Runai and a director of a private company in connection with cases filed over embezzlement.
A four member team led by ACC Deputy Director Gulshan Anowar Prodhan interrogated them. 
Nahida is one of the accused who "abetted" owner of Anan Chemical in managing a loan of Tk 70.82 crore. The money was later misappropriated through different deceptive means.
The ACC arrested Nahida on March 16. She was also interrogated earlier.
On the other hand, there is allegation against Shuvra Rani Ghosh, director of Wakama Limited, for taking a loan of about Tk 87.60 crore producing fake documents. 
According to the anti-graft watchdog, Shuvra transferred the money to different persons and organisations and misappropriated it. 
Sources said Wakama is an organisation on paper but it does not actually exist.
They were interrogated for about two and a half hours on the first day of a five-day remand.
Preferring to remain unnamed, an ACC official said the interrogators admitted that they did what they were asked to do by Proshanta Kuman Halder alias PK Hander, prime accused of the cases.
ACC found that Halder, former managing director of NRB Global Bank, was the mastermind behind the embezzlement of huge amounts of money from non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs). 
So far, the ACC filed 15 cases over misappropriation of about Tk 1,100 crore from the ILFS. The anti-graft watchdog has so far arrested 11 in these cases. 
Sources said of the arrestees, eight have already admitted their involvement in the cases.