UNB, Dhaka :The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a charge-sheet in a case against 14 people, including managing director of Bismillah Towel Limited Khwaja Solaiman Anwar Chowdhury, on charge of swindling about Tk 58 crore by Bismillah Group.The Commission at its regular meeting on Thursday approved the charge-sheet, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.The other accused, named in the charge-sheet, are Bismillah Group chairman and Solaiman’s wife Nowrin Hasib, director Safiqul Anwar Chowdhury, deputy managing director of the group Akbar Aziz Muttadi, general manger Abul Hasan Chowdhury, manger Riazuddin Ahmad, chairman of Network Framework System Limited (an authorised entity of Bismillah Group) M Akter Hossain and owner of Bay Yarn Limited Ghulam Moinuddin Ahmed, and six bank officials – ex-manager of Premier Bank (Motijheel branch) Shahinur Rahman, ex-deputy manager Shahadat Hossain, first assistant vice presidents MA Rahim and Tajibul Alam, vice president Shahabuddin Sraker and ex-executive officer Abu Saleh Arifur Rahman.On November 3, 2013, the ACC filed 12 cases against 53 people, including 13 officials of the Bismillah Group, a terry towel producer, for allegedly swindling about Tk 1,175 crore from five commercial banks.The 13 officials of Bismillah Group who were named in the cases are managing director of Bismillah Towel Limited Khwaja Solaiman Anwar Chowdhury, its chairman and Solaiman’s wife Nowrin Hasib; directors Safiqul Anwar Chowdhury, Abida Hasib, Nahid Anwar Khan, Khandakar M Moinuddin Ashraf and Sarwar Jahan; deputy managing director of Bismillah Towel Group Akbar Aziz Muttaki, general manager of Bismillah Towel Group Abul Hossain Chowdhury and manager Riaz Uddin Ahmed; chairman of Network Framework System Limited (an authorised entity of Bismillah Group) M Akter Hossain; TW Express owner M Moin Uddin, and owner of Bay Yarn Limited Ghulam Moinuddin Ahmed.The remaining 40 accused are the officials of Janata Bank, Prime Bank, Jamuna Bank, Shahjalal Islami Bank and Premier Bank.According to the first information reports (FIRs), Bismillah Group with the help of bank officials swindled Tk 526.96 crore from three branches of Janata Bank, Tk 326.51 crore from Motijheel branch of Prime Bank, Tk 154.66 crore from Motijheel branch of Jamuna Bank, Tk 104.04 crore from Eskaton branch of Shahjalal Islami Bank and Tk 62.53 crore from Motijheel branch of Premier Bank.
