3 ex-bank officials jailed for 20 years
UNB
A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced four people, including three former officials of Agrani Bank, to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment in four corruption cases, reports UNB.
The court also ordered seizure of movable and immovable property of the convicts to recover Tk 1.5 crore embezzled from a branch of the bank in the port city.
The convicts are former Agrani Bank officials Abdus Shukkur, Moin Uddin and Tarit Kanti Sen, and Bibhutibhushan Talukder, owner of Messrs Saikat Traders.
Anti Corruption Commission lawyer Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury said the convicted people in connivance with each others misappropriated Tk 1.5 crore from March 3, 1986 to June 16, 1987 after withdrawing the money from Khatunganj branch of Agrani Bank in the name of importing sugar.
The then Anti Corruption Bureau filed four cases with the Kotwali Police Station in connection with the irregularities.
ACC lawyer Mejbah Uddin Chowdhury said the court also directed the deputy commissioner of Chittagong to deposit the embezzled amount to the national exchequer after seizing movable and immovable property of the convicts.
At the same time, the court sent Bibhutibhushan Talukder to jail concealing his bail.
