The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed on Wednesday cases against 13 persons, including former officials of BASIC Bank Ltd and Lanka Bangla Finance Ltd, for embezzling over Tk 79.24 million.
The accused have been accused of embezzling the money through helping get bank loans, according to the anti-graft watchdog.
ACC sub-assistant director Mohammad Jinnatul Islam filed the cases with Gulshan police station in Dhaka under penal codes 409/406/109/168 and section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947.
ACC spokesperson Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee told the FE that the commission so far filed around 60 different cases against scamsters.
The 13 accused committed the unethical act of helping each other through a breach of official trust and misuse of power.
Those sued included deputy general managers Md Imrul Islam and Shakib Mahmud Sarfuddin and Messers PC Avenue proprietor Ms Rozina Ahmed. Md Mosharraf Hossain, Dhali Moazzem Hossain, Md Motaleb Hossain, Md Mofazzal Hossain, all from Topkhana Road in the city, and former deputy attorney general Md Shah Alam Bhuiyan are also on the list.
Lanka-Bangla vice-president and former advance officer of Basic Bank Ltd's Gulshan Branch Faruk Ahmed Bhuiyan, Basic Bank's Gulshan Branch former branch manager S Asif Ahmed, Bhuiyan Associates director Engineer Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, and consultant Engineer Md Mohiuddin Sikder and Dhaka Polytechnic Institute former instructor (civil engineering department) Md Khalilur Rahman Bhuiyan have also been sued.
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