Gazi Anowarul Hoque :
The nationalized Sonali Bank Limited (SBL) is facilitating one of its staff to continue his job for long despite knowing about his ‘fake’ certificates and few other major defaults, competent sources said.
Sources said the staff of the bank, Md Kamal Uddin, is holding the top post of the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agent) and still doing his job despite ‘fake’ certificates and that his retirement age passed two years ago.
As per available documents, Kamal joined the
bank on 12th January in 1981 in the post of a Godawn Chowkidar (storehouse guard) on temporary basis submitting class Eight Certificate. According to the certificate, his date of birth (DoB) was 15th February 1954.
Based on the certificate, his service tenure ended on 14th February 2013. But he is still serving the bank as Assistant Officer Grade-2 at the IT section exercising his political influence.
Kamal, later, submitted a SSC pass certificate to the bank where his DoB was shown as 15th February 1964. Surprisingly, the certificate obtained from Comilla Board on 23rd July in 1984 did not bear any roll or registration number.
Besides, the documents collected from the source also showed that the date of his birth was tampered clearly in the appointment letter.
Apart from fake certificate and tampering of date of birth, he did not fill the government service age limit. According to date of birth, his age was 16 years eight months and seventeen days at the time of joining the bank (15.02.1964 – 12.01.1981). But the government service rule says that 18 years is needed to join the government service.
Moreover, he did not even receive any leave or approval from the bank for SSC examination.
It is also alleged that despite being a third class employee, he is using a car (NO: Dhaka-1771) by abusing his political power. He has a big investment in the Dhaka Stock Market. Two BO accounts have been operating in the name of Kamal Uddin and his son, Mizanur Rahman at Razzaq Securities and Midway Securities.
However, a high official of the bank preferring anonymity said, the management does not have power to take action against Kamal Uddin. “We are helpless to his political influence.”
When contacted with Kamal Uddin, he told the New Nation, “I have been working in the bank by showing SSC certificate. If I break any service rule, the bank authority may take disciplinary action against me.”
However, Md. Obayed Ullah Al Masud, CEO and Managing Director of Sonali Bank Ltd did not respond to phone calls and text message to comment on the issue. But Tariqul Islam Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Director of the bank told the New Nation, the bank is going to take disciplinary action against Kamal Uddin ignoring his political pressure.
The nationalized Sonali Bank Limited (SBL) is facilitating one of its staff to continue his job for long despite knowing about his ‘fake’ certificates and few other major defaults, competent sources said.
Sources said the staff of the bank, Md Kamal Uddin, is holding the top post of the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agent) and still doing his job despite ‘fake’ certificates and that his retirement age passed two years ago.
As per available documents, Kamal joined the
bank on 12th January in 1981 in the post of a Godawn Chowkidar (storehouse guard) on temporary basis submitting class Eight Certificate. According to the certificate, his date of birth (DoB) was 15th February 1954.
Based on the certificate, his service tenure ended on 14th February 2013. But he is still serving the bank as Assistant Officer Grade-2 at the IT section exercising his political influence.
Kamal, later, submitted a SSC pass certificate to the bank where his DoB was shown as 15th February 1964. Surprisingly, the certificate obtained from Comilla Board on 23rd July in 1984 did not bear any roll or registration number.
Besides, the documents collected from the source also showed that the date of his birth was tampered clearly in the appointment letter.
Apart from fake certificate and tampering of date of birth, he did not fill the government service age limit. According to date of birth, his age was 16 years eight months and seventeen days at the time of joining the bank (15.02.1964 – 12.01.1981). But the government service rule says that 18 years is needed to join the government service.
Moreover, he did not even receive any leave or approval from the bank for SSC examination.
It is also alleged that despite being a third class employee, he is using a car (NO: Dhaka-1771) by abusing his political power. He has a big investment in the Dhaka Stock Market. Two BO accounts have been operating in the name of Kamal Uddin and his son, Mizanur Rahman at Razzaq Securities and Midway Securities.
However, a high official of the bank preferring anonymity said, the management does not have power to take action against Kamal Uddin. “We are helpless to his political influence.”
When contacted with Kamal Uddin, he told the New Nation, “I have been working in the bank by showing SSC certificate. If I break any service rule, the bank authority may take disciplinary action against me.”
However, Md. Obayed Ullah Al Masud, CEO and Managing Director of Sonali Bank Ltd did not respond to phone calls and text message to comment on the issue. But Tariqul Islam Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Director of the bank told the New Nation, the bank is going to take disciplinary action against Kamal Uddin ignoring his political pressure.
