S Alam loan scam: ACC summons 13 Bangladesh Bank officials

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday summoned 13 officials of Bangladesh Bank over embezzlement of money through sanctioning thousands of crores of taka loan from Islami Bank Bangladesh to S Alam Group and its associates.

Golam Sarwar Chowdhury, owner of M/s Murad Enterprise and United Super Traders, customers of the Jubilee Road branch of Islami Bank, Century Food Products, a customer of the Khatungonj branch, and others embezzled money from the bank in the name of loans.

Inquiry officer and ACC Deputy Director Yasir Arafat sent a letter to the governor of the central bank asking the 13 officials to appear at the ACC headquarters to give their statement over the allegations.

ACC asked Bangladesh Bank Inspection Department joint directors Sunirban Barua, Anik Talukder, additional directors Shankar Kanti Ghosh, Salima Begum, deputy directors Md Jubair Hossain and Rubel Chowdhury to appear before it on November 20.

Besides, the commission asked Bangladesh Bank Inspection Department joint director Syed M Arif-un-Nabi, additional directors Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Md Shoayeb Chowdhury, Md Manjur Hossain Khan and Md Abdur Rauf, deputy director Lenin Azad Palash and director Md Sarwar Hossain to appear on November 21.

The commission summoned and interrogated 23 officials of Islami Bank Bangladesh on November 10, 11, and 12 over the same allegation while the ACC started an inquiry into allegations of money laundering against Mohammad Saiful Alam, alias S Alam, the owner of S Alam Group.

Source: UNB