Chittagong Bureau :
Anti -corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against six persons including BNP central joint secretary Aslam Chowdhury, for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 325 crore from AB bank.
ACC Assistant Director Maniklal Das, filed the case with city’s Doublemooring thana on Saturday night.
The other accused are Aslam’s younger brothers and directors of Rising Steel – Jashim Uddin Chowdhury and Amjad Hossain Chowdhury, his wife and director of the same organization Jamila Naznin Maula, former AB Bank Managing Director Fazlur Rahman and Bangladesh Bank (BB) General Manager (GM) (Accountant and Audit department) Badrul Haque Khan, who had also served as the deputy GM and head of credit of AB Bank’s principal branch at the time of the crime.
ACC has already detained BB GM Badrul Haque Khan from Dhaka and Rising Steel Mills Director Jasim Uddin Chowdhury from Chittagong in connection with the case, last night.
Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan, Director ACC Chittagong unit said that charges of misappropriating Tk 325 crore taken as loans from the AB Bank in 2011, has been brought against Aslam and five others.
Bank sources said Aslam Chowdhury had taken TK 377 crore as trust loan against his ship breaking industry ‘Rising Steel’, from AB Bank Limited, Agrabad Branch, without any guarantors in 2011. He deposited TK 51.80 crore only till today misappropriating over Tk 325 crore, the source added.
Aslam Chowdhury was arrested by police from Dhaka on May 15 last and later brought a sedition charge accusing him of conspiring to topple the AL led Government in connivance with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
Anti -corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against six persons including BNP central joint secretary Aslam Chowdhury, for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 325 crore from AB bank.
ACC Assistant Director Maniklal Das, filed the case with city’s Doublemooring thana on Saturday night.
The other accused are Aslam’s younger brothers and directors of Rising Steel – Jashim Uddin Chowdhury and Amjad Hossain Chowdhury, his wife and director of the same organization Jamila Naznin Maula, former AB Bank Managing Director Fazlur Rahman and Bangladesh Bank (BB) General Manager (GM) (Accountant and Audit department) Badrul Haque Khan, who had also served as the deputy GM and head of credit of AB Bank’s principal branch at the time of the crime.
ACC has already detained BB GM Badrul Haque Khan from Dhaka and Rising Steel Mills Director Jasim Uddin Chowdhury from Chittagong in connection with the case, last night.
Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan, Director ACC Chittagong unit said that charges of misappropriating Tk 325 crore taken as loans from the AB Bank in 2011, has been brought against Aslam and five others.
Bank sources said Aslam Chowdhury had taken TK 377 crore as trust loan against his ship breaking industry ‘Rising Steel’, from AB Bank Limited, Agrabad Branch, without any guarantors in 2011. He deposited TK 51.80 crore only till today misappropriating over Tk 325 crore, the source added.
Aslam Chowdhury was arrested by police from Dhaka on May 15 last and later brought a sedition charge accusing him of conspiring to topple the AL led Government in connivance with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad.
