ACC grills eight BDBL men

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UNB, Dhaka :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated eight officials of Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) in connection with the alleged embezzlement of nearly Tk 1,300 crore by Ananda Shipyard.
An ACC team, led by its deputy director and inquiry officer Zainul Abedin Shebly, questioned them for about three hours from 10 am at the Commission’s head office, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
The BDBL officials, grilled yesterday, were general manger at its head office Nurur Rahman Quadri, senior principal officer (Faridpur branch) Yunus Ali, senior principal officer (head office) Imamur Rashid, senior principal officer (Motijheel branch) Dinesh Chandra Saha, assistant general manger (head office) SM Sirajul Islam, former senior principal officer (head office) Nazrul Islam, deputy general manger (Agrabad branch, Chittagong) Tapan Kumar Roy and former consultant of the bank’s trading branch Mahe Alam.
In April 2014, the ACC launched a probe into the allegation of swindling nearly Tk 1,300 crore from 14 commercial banks and financial institutions
by Ananda Shipyard, a manufacturer and exporter of ships.
According to the graft allegation, Ananda Shipyard took loans of Tk 1,300 crore showing fake documents. The banks disbursed the loans violating banking rules when Ananda Shipyard had no experience of building ships.
The Bangladesh Bank in its inspections also found such irregularities in disbursing loans by the banks and financial institutions.
According to the central bank report, Ananda Shipyard took loans of Tk 456.34 crore from IBBL; about Tk 187 crore from AB Bank Limited;
Tk 221.2 crore from Mercantile Bank; Tk 114.21 crore from One Bank;
Tk 238 crore from Janata Bank; Tk 24 crore from Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL); and Tk 15.14 crore from NCC Bank.
Ananda Shipyard also took loans of Tk 1.93 crore from Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFCL); Tk 23.18 crore from Finix Finance & Development Limited; Tk 11.75 crore from Fareast Finance & Development Limited; Tk 3.72 crore from IDLC; Tk 2.92 crore from Housing Finance & Investment Limited; Tk 3.92 crore from Haj Finance Company Limited; and Tk 3 crore from Premier Leasing and Finance Limited.
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