The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday interrogated three former senior officials and one incumbent official of state-run Bangladesh Krishi Bank in connection with an alleged misappropriation of Tk 152 crore through loan scams. They had helped Wahidur Rahman, a restaurant and auto-rickshaw businessman in the capital's Moghbazar, get the loan sanctioned from the bank's Banani branch in 2010, said
ACC Deputy Director Zulfikar Ali. Despite being a loan defaulter according to a CIB (Credit Information Bureau) report, Wahidur with their support took out the loan against his three business entities -- Auto-refiner, Faiz Enterprise and Faiz Trading. The conspirators had concealed the report while sanctioning and disbursing the loan, the ACC official said. He interrogated the bank's former general manager Masud Ahmed Khan, deputy general managers Golam Sarwar and Hafizuddin, and incumbent chief regional manager Zubayer Manju of Cox's Bazar at his Segunbagicha office. Former managing director Mukhter Hossain, who was also scheduled to appear in the office of the anti-graft body for interrogation, did not show up while businessman Wahidur has been on the run since the ACC launched an inquiry into the matter in September. ACC found that while taking the loan, Wahidur mortgaged a piece of land to the bank's Banani branch, but the land had already been mortgaged to another bank for another loan. Wahidur is also a loan defaulter of another state-owned lender, BASIC Bank. Like many others, he allegedly took out loans from the bank on forged documents between 2010 and 2013. Advertisement
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