Former senior vice-president of the then Oriental Bank Md Abul Kashem Mahmudullah, a fugitive convict in 10 cases, including one in which he got life imprisonment for embezzlement and fraud, has been arrested from the capital's Rupnagar area on Friday and sent to a Munshiganj court yesterday.

Later yesterday afternoon, he was sent to district jail as per the court's order, Officer-in-Charge of Munshiganj's Sreenagar Police Station Mohammad Aminul Islam confirmed.

"Kashem, from Samashpur village of Kolapara union in Munshiganj's Sreenagar upazila, is a convict accused in 10 cases. Most of them involve money laundering and fraud," the official said.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in one case, 17 years in one case, 17 years in another case and various sentences in the remaining 7 cases, he said.

The court has sentenced the former officer of Oriental Bank's principal branch to life imprisonment in a case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on August 25, 2015.

A total of 34 cases were registered in 2005 and 2006 for embezzling an estimated Tk 34 crore from Oriental Bank. In 2013, the ACC filed charge sheets in eight of those cases.

In 2009, after change in its ownership, the bank was renamed to ICB Islami Bank.