Tk 25cr Barisal Rupali Bank Loan Scam
ACC charge sheet against 7 bank officials, guarantor
AKM Fazlul Huq, assistant director of Barisal Anti Corruption Commission (ACC), submitted charge sheet against nine accused including BNP leaders and bank officials in Tk 25 core Barisal Rupali Bank loan scam case.
The accused are Jatiotabadi Mahila Dal leader and managing director of Ambia Memorial Hospital and Diagnostic Limited (AMHDL) Jannatun Nesa Nayon; her husband businessman Syed Md. Yunus alias Tube Well Yunus, chairman of AMHDL and guarantor of the loans; former managers Shamsur Rahman and Abdul Khalek of Nathullabad branch of Rupali Bank, loan officer Makbul Hossain, second officer Shamsul Azad of Sadar Road branch of the bank, principal officer Abdur Rob; and audit and inspection officials of the bank's regional office Biplob Ghosh and Habibur Rahman.
The charge sheet submitted to ACC head office in Dhaka on Thursday will be filed with police station.
Earlier, ACC conducted a probe into the scam. The probe was done by Barisal ACC assistant director AKM Fazlul Huq and the report was submitted last month.
After submission of the probe report, the ACC head office asked Fazlul Huq to submit charge sheet, the sources said.
Rupali Bank head office also found the scam in investigation in 2006.
Bank authorities lodged two cases against Nayon, some bank officials and the guarantor.
The cases were transferred to ACC in December last year for investigation.
Syed Yunus arrested by RAB on October 25, 2007 from Dhaka and now in Barisal jail as accused in a cheating case.
Sources in Barisal ACC said Yunus was wanted for long by the task forces of anti corruption department for misappropriating cores of taka by illegally taking bank loans, collecting bills from government offices without doing work .
Three other cases lodged against Yunus by PHED and two other private firms are also under investigation.
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