Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission has approved a charge sheet in a case against former Rupali Bank managing director M Farid Uddin and nine others on charges of embezzlement of about Tk 148 crore through loan fraud.
The commission approved the charge sheet at a meeting recently, ACC public relations officer Muhammad Arif Sadiq said.
The other accused in the case are the bank’s former deputy managing director M Neyamot Ullah, former branch chief M Siraj Uddin, former principal officer M Kamal Uddin, former deputy general manager Sayeed Abul Mansur and former principal officer Abu Naser Mohammed and HR Spinning Mills Limited’s managing director Habibur Rahman, its chairman Riyazul Haque and its director Masudur Rahman.
Earlier on August 4, ACC Assistant Director SM Rashedur Reza filed the case against 10 people, including Farid.
According to the commission’s findings, the officials of Rupali Bank and HR Spinning Mills Ltd embezzled the amount from the bank by mortgaging the Bangladesh Railway’s 117 decimals of land through false loan documents.
The commission has found all of them guilty under the Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The loan fraud was committed between March 8, 2011 and March 31, 2019, the commission findings said.
