Jessore man held for 'stealing Tk 3.8cr'

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday arrested a fertiliser trader for allegedly misappropriating over Tk 3.8 crore of Agrani Bank with the help of the then Jessore's Noapara branch manager in 2009.

In the last 43 days, ACC arrested 79 persons over corruption since Iqbal Mahmud took over as its new chairman, said ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

Yesterday, ACC arrested six persons in different parts of the country, including the fertiliser trader, Shahjahan Ali Molla, in Jessore.

Shahjahan took loan of Tk 3.8 crore from the branch and he was supposed to store the fertiliser in a warehouse, said Wazed Ali Gazi, complainant of the case and an assistant director of ACC. "He sold out the fertiliser instead of doing so with the help of bank manager Tozammel Haque," he said, adding that Tozammel, who retired, was yet to be traced.

Meanwhile, proprietor of Cargo Movers and Packers, a clearing and forwarding (C&F) firm, Abdul Awal and its staff Md Abul Hashem were arrested in Chittagong for laundering Tk 14.13 lakh, reports our correspondent.

The money was laundered abroad between September 1 and November 9 in 2013, said ACC Assistant Director HM Rahmat Ullah. A case was filed with Bandar Police Station on April 23, 2015.

Besides, Rupali Bank's manager of Shikaripara Branch in Dohar Farid Ahmed, its former senior officer Abdus Salam and Shahjalal Islami Bank's manager of Joypara Branch in Dohar Mizanur Rahman were arrested in two separate cases filed over embezzling over Tk 23 lakh.