The Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against five officials of an agent banking outlet of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited on charge of embezzling Tk 1.81 crore.
Md Mahbubur Rahman, deputy assistant director of the ACC Rajshahi district integrated office, filed the case on Tuesday against the outlet鈥檚 in-charge Esarul Haque, cashier Anisur Rahman, marketing officers Abu Raihan and Mahmudur Rahman, and office assistant Abu Bakkar Siddique.
According to the case statement, with the IBL鈥檚 permission, Esarul introduced the outlet named 鈥楴etwork IT Digital Centre鈥� at Nachol Bazar in Chapainawabganj on January 4, 2018 and started its activities.
Although IBL鈥檚 customers submitted their money to the outlet, Esanur and the other accused did not deposit the customers鈥� money in their bank accounts.
Instead, they created a bank slip that mimicked the IBL original slip and provided it to the customers, the case statement reads.
After a customer had complained to the IBL Rohanpur branch that Network IT Digital Centre did not deposit the money he submitted to the outlet, the IBL authorities investigated the matter and found the allegation to be true and asked for an explanation from Esarul.
On July 9, Esarul provided the IBL officials with a list of the customers whose money he did not deposit in their bank accounts and the total amount of such money stood at Tk 1.81 crore.
Later on July 18, the IBL authorities filed a general diary against Esarul and four others with the Nachol police station that forwarded the case to the ACC Rajshahi office.
Esarul and the other accused, however, could not be reached for their comments over the phone.
