The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against 23 people including former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and his wife and former United Commercial Bank PLC chairman Rukmila Zaman for taking a loan of Tk 20 crore in the name of a fake company and embezzling the money.
The ACC filed another case against former lawmaker Benazir Ahmed and his wife Shahina Ahmed allegedly for amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 18.79 crore.
ACC director general (prevention) Akhtar Hossain, addressing a press briefing on Thursday said that the commission鈥檚 deputy director Mahfuj Iqbal filed a case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 against Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and 22 other individuals following approval of the commission.
The other accused are UCB former directors Shah Alam, Ruksana Zaman Chowdhury, Boshir Ahmed, Nurul Islam Chowdhury, Syed Kamruzzaman, Tohid Siper Rafiquazzaman, 聽Hazi Abu Kalam, Yunus Ahmed, Afroza Zaman, Md Zunied Shofik, its former managing director Mohammad Shawkat Jamil, former vice-chairman Bazal Ahmed Babul, RMC鈥檚 former chairman MA Sobur, Classic Trading鈥檚 proprietor Md Jahangir Alam,聽 Eminent Trading鈥檚 proprietor Sheikh Forkanul Haque Chowdhury,聽 Imperial Trading鈥檚 proprietor Md Abdul Aziz, Model Trading鈥檚 proprietor Mesbahul Alam, UCB鈥檚 former vice president Arfanul Islam, former FAVP Anisul Islam, former FAVP Anisur Rahman, and former senior officer Montaka Mohammad Sayed.聽聽
According to the case statement, the accused people embezzled Tk 20 crore by taking a loan from the UCB PLC in the name of non-existent Imperial Trading, Classic Trading and Model Trading violating banking rules and regulations and abusing power between 2017 and 2020.
After taking the loan from the UCB, the money was used to repay the loan taken by Aramit Cement Limited from International Leasing and Financial Services Limited.
The court, responding to an application by the ACC, had earlier ordered the seizure of shares worth Tk 102 crore and 957 bighas of land belonging to Saifuzzaman and the freezing of 39 bank accounts.
The ACC on Thursday also filed a case against former Awami League lawmaker for Dhaka-20 constituency Benazir Ahmed for amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 17.82 crore and suspicious transactions of Tk 84.42 crore in his 11 bank accounts.
The commission filed another case against Benazir Ahmed鈥檚 wife Shahina Ahmed on charge of amassing illegal assets worth Tk 97.47 lakh. Benazir Ahmed is also accused along with his wife in the case.
