Three prosecution witnesses on Tuesday gave their statements before a Dhaka court against 11 accused including former chief justice SK Sinha over embezzling 4 crore taka from Farmers Bank Ltd (now Padma Bank Ltd).
The witnesses are - Sadekul Islam, principal Officer, Sonali Bank’s Supreme Court branch, Sakhawat Hossain and Awlad Hossain.
Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam of the Special Judge Court-4 of Dhaka also fixed October 4 for the next hearing.
The other accused in the case are Gazi Salahuddin, senior executive vice president and former head of credit division, Swapan Kumar Roy, first vice president (Credit division), Shafiuddin Askari Ahmed and Md Lutful Haque, first vice presidents of the Gulshan Corporate Branch of the Farmers Bank, M Mahbubul Haque Chisti, entrepreneur director and chairman of Audit Committee of the Farmers Bank, and Mohammad Shahjahan, Niranjan Chandra Saha, Santri Roy Simi and Ranjit Chandra Saha.
Earlier on 25 August, Three prosecution witnesses including ACC Assistant Director Monirul Islam, Assistant Vice-president and Manager (operation) of Gulshan Corporate Branch of Farmers Bank Ltd, Mrinal Majumder and its Executive Officer Rezaul Hassan testified before a Dhaka court against the 11 accused in the case.
On August 18, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) director Syed Iqbal Hossain, also the complainant of the case, gave his statement before the same court.
On 13 August, Judge Shaikh Nazmul Alam framed charges against 11 accused, including SK Sinha, fixing August 18 as the date to begin the trial of the case.
On July 10, 2019, the ACC filed the case on a charge of misappropriating and laundering about 4 crore taka from Farmers Bank in 2016.
nh/teb
