Staff reporter :Three former BASIC Bank officials of Zindabazar Branch have looted Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) amounting to Tk 2.09 crore.Finance Minister AMA Muhith said this while answering a question of Md Rustom Ali, MP in the parliament on Saturday..As per the statement of the finance minister, the three ex-bank officials are — Deputy General Managers Parban Chowdhury and Md Mostafa Kamal, and manager of the branch Saleh Ahmed Chowdhury.The forgery of FDR was identified by the internal audit committee of the branch.Currently, the case is going on as per the Financial Crime Act, said the finance minister.A group of bank officials also enchased Tk 3,000 crore from the state-owned banks as per the news of media. But the central bank has no prove regarding this forgery. Earlier, the Gulshan Branch of BASIC Bank allowed fake and defaulter companies to swindle another Tk 1,000 crore in 2013, defying Bangladesh Bank’s instructions to rectify its irregularities in disbursing around Tk 1,300 crore a year ago. The state-run bank disbursed the amount without following any rules, found the central bank that ran an investigation at the branch for the second time between January and June this year. Depositors’ money is not safe in BASIC Bank, said a senior bank official of Bangladesh Bank. The government should immediately take action against the culprit officials of the bank to run their business as per banking regulation, said the BB official.
