The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against three persons, including two bank officials, for allegedly swindling out about Tk 926 million from Sonali Bank Ltd.
ACC deputy assistant director Md Mosharraf Hossain filed the case against them with Daulatpur Police Station in Khulna, ACC spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattachariya said, reports UNB.
The case was filed against owner of Eastern Jute Mills Limited Sanjit Kumar Das and then warehouse keeper of Sonali Bank's Daulatpur corporate branch Md Matiar Rahman (now godown keeper of Sonali Bank's Maheshpur branch) and then assistant general manager of the bank's Daulatpur branch Md Nazrul Islam (now AGM of Sonali Bank's Khulna corporate branch).
According to the case statement, Eastern Jute Mills earlier took over Tk 490 million in loan from Sonali Bank's Daulatpur branch to import raw goods from abroad.
However, the mill did not import goods and the accused in collusion with each other swindled the money and caused a loss of Tk 926 million (with interest) to the national exchequer.
The case was filed under the Penal Code and the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2004.