Staff Reporter :
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has served notice to two former officials of Bangladesh Krishi Bank [BKB] for their involvement in around Tk 1,000 crore loan embezzlement.
On Tuesday, separate notices were sent to them from the ACC head office signed by the Deputy Director Zulfikar Ali of ACC. The former BKB officials have been summoned to ACC head office on February 12, a senior official of ACC said on Tuesday. The persons to be investigated are former Principal Officer Md. Nasiruddin Ahmed and Ahsanullah Khan, of Banani Branch. It maybe mentioned here that Banani Branch of BKB is notorious for thousands of crore taka loan embezzlement . They have been accused of a total of Rk 124 crore loan embezzlement.
ACC sources have revealed that a businessman Wahidur Rahman has scammed an amount of 124 crore taka as loan from the Banani Branch of BKB with the assistance of officials of this bank .
Out of the total scammed money, Tk 54 crore 58 lakh was in the name of Fiaz Enterprise, Tk 36 crore 47 lakh was in the name of Auto Define and Tk 32 crore 83 lakh loan was in the name of Fiaz Trading.
All these aforementioned institutions have already become loan defaulters.
Apart from BKB, Wahidur Rahman scammed an amount of 767 crore taka from Basic Bank, 100 crore taka from ICB Bank, 6 crore taka from City Bank and 2 crore 40 lakh taka from the financial institution IDLC in the name of taking loan during a time period covering from 2005 to 2011.
