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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against 7 officials including a branch manager of Midland Bank for embezzling Tk 3 crore from 46 customers through fraud and deception according to local media house.
On Thursday (December 21), ACC’s Gazipur district office said the assistant director of the organization Saiduzzaman filed the case as the plaintiff. An ACC source confirmed the matter.
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The defendants in the case are the manager and AVP of Narsingdi branch of Midland Bank Limited Faruq Ur Rahman, former officer Mokchedul Hossain, Service Associate and CSO Shahrin Ahmed Urmi, Junior Officer Md. Hasanuzzaman, SE & CSM SM Lutful Kabir, EO & CSM Rajeev Ahmed and Service Associate Sonet Kumar Das.
In the statement of the case, it is said that among the 46 account holders of the Narsingdi branch, 19 SOD loan accounts were created by forgery by forging the signatures of 19 customers, new accounts were opened by forging the signatures of the remaining accounts, the check pages were stolen and signatures were forged for RTGS, BEFTN and cash withdrawals. The accused embezzled the money without paying the customer.
In this way, the accused embezzled 3 crore 7 lakh 32 thousand 323 taka from 46 accounts by cheating, forgery, criminal breach of trust and abuse of power. From 2016 to 2021, the accused embezzled the money step by step, according to the investigation of the ACC. The accused have been charged in the case under Section 409/420/467/468/471/109 of the Penal Code and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947.
Midland Bank’s senior executive vice president (public relations) Rashedul Anwar told that the matter was first detected in the bank’s internal audit. After that an inquiry committee was constituted by the decision of the board. That committee unraveled the whole story. Later, under the direction of Bangladesh Bank, the matter was investigated under the ACC. In view of which the case was filed today.
He said, for us, the interest of the customer comes first. Besides taking action against those involved in the incident, we have refunded all the customer’s money. That is, the bank has accepted all the responsibilities. Now action will be taken against the accused as per law.
Source: Dhakapost
