Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against two officials of Sonali Bank and a businessman on the charge of embezzling about Tk four crore from the bank.
ACC Deputy Director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibly filed the case with the city’s Motijheel Police Station, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told The New Nation.
The case was filed against Managing Director of M/s Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited (Narayanganj) Ayesha Afroz, Executive Officer of Sonali Bank Mosharraf Hossain and Executive Officer and Manager of Debidwar Branch of the bank Zakir Hossain.
According to the first information report (FIR), exporters are given cash incentives if they can bring home the total prices of the exported products.
Though M/s Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited could not bring 10 percent of total price of the products it exported, its Managing Director Ayesha Afroz applied to Sonali Bank to get a discount certificate. Despite its failure to fulfil the bank condition, the two officials of Sonali Bank’s Local Office jointly issued a discount certificate to Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited.
Showing the discount certificate, Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited withdrew about Tk 4.14 crore from Sonali Bank Local Office as cash incentives and all the accused in collusion with each other embezzled the amount.
The case was filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947.
