Pabna senior judicial magistrate court on Friday sent three Agrani Bank officials from Kashinathpur branch in Santhia upazila of the district over their alleged involvement of embezzling Tk 10.13 crore from the vault of the bank.
Judge of the court Md Anwar Hossin Sagar passed the order. On Thursday night, a team of Santhia police station arrested the trio from the branch.
The arrested are 鈥� Agrani Bank Kashinathpur branch principal officer Abu Jafar, manager Harun Bin Salam and cashier Subrata Chakrabarty. Among them, Subrata admitted his involvement in embezzling the money.聽
According to police and bank sources, acting on a tip-off, five officials from Agrani Bank Rajshahi divisional and Pabna regional branches came to audit Kashinathpur branch of the bank on Thursday.
After the day-long audit, the authorities found financial irregularities of Tk 10,13,62,378 and then handed the three bank officials over to Santhia police station.
Later, deputy general manager of Agrani Bank Pabna regional branch Rezaul Sharif filed a complaint with the police station in this regard.
Officer in-charge of Santhia police station Anwar Hossain said that the three bank officials had been arrested under section 54 of the criminal procedure code.
They were sent to jail through the court on Friday, the OC added.
He also said that the Anti-Corruption Commission would take necessary measures further regarding the money embezzlement and other issues.