The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will again interrogate former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu on May 15 as he skipped Monday’s quizzing in connection with a case over embezzlement of huge amount of money from the bank.
Earlier, deputy director of the commission Shamsul Alam served a notice on him to be present to face the Monday’s interrogation, says a UNB report.
ACC’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said on Monday that a new date has been fixed for questioning Bachchu as he skipped today’s interrogation.
He added that Bachchu submitted an application seeking two-month time on the ground of illness but ACC allowed a week only.
The central bank sent a report on the scam to the ACC on July 14, 2014 about the detail of embezzlement and found Bachchu’s illegal influence in all the activities of the bank.
According to an inquiry of Bangladesh Bank, about Tk 45 billion was swindled out from Basic Bank during six years while Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu served as its chairman.
He resigned from the Bank on July 4, 2014, as the finance ministry sent a letter to Bangladesh Bank to dissolve the then existing committee of the bank on May 29, 2014.
The ACC filed 56 cases with three police stations in the capital accusing more than 100 individuals, including 26 bank officials, in September of 2015 while the commission filed another five cases last year.
But Bachchu was not made accused in any of the cases.