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The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against 13 people, including former chairman of Bangladesh Industrial Financial Company Ltd (BIFC) Umme Kulsum Mannan on charges of embezzling Tk36.49 crore.
The anti-graft body’s Deputy Director Abdul Majed filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 after approval of the commission on the day, ACC sources said
According to the case, BIFC’s former chairman, directors and officials in collusion with each other distributed Tk 36 crore as a loan to Md Rois Uddin Ahmed, the owner of Maxnet online without a security deposit and mortgage.
Later, they transferred the money to different bank accounts.
The accused are – BIFC former chairman Umme Kulsum Mannan, also the wife of Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh secretary general Major (Retd) Abdul Mannan, their two daughters and also BIFC’s former directors -Tanjila Mannan, Tajrina Mannan, BIFC directors Abbas Uddin Ahmed, ANM Jahangir Alam, former BIFC directors Brig Gen (Retd) Khaled A Karim, Arshad Ullah, former deputy managing director Enamur Rahman, former senior vice-president Syed Fakre Faysal, former AVP Ahmed Karim Chowdhury, former senior officers Md Nizam Uddin and SM Mustafizur Rahman, and Maxnet online owner Rois Uddin Ahmed.
With the latest case, a total of six cases were filed by the ACC against BIFC’s former and incumbent officials on charges of embezzling Tk 121 crore from the non-banking financial institution.
