The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has approved a charge-sheet against Md Sawkat Chowdhury, a Jatiya Party MP from Nilphamari-4, and eight bank officials on charge of swindling over Tk10 million from a commercial bank, reports UNB.
The Commission at its regular meeting on Thursday approved the charge-sheet against them in a graft case, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.
The charge-sheet will be submitted before court against MP Md Sawkat Chowdhury, also managing director of Udayan Agro Company Ltd, Md Hasibul Gani, former first assistant vice president of Bangladesh Commerce Bank, Dr Mohammad Asaduzzaman, suspended additional managing director of the bank, Shirin Nizami, first executive officer, Shafiqul Islam, former senior vice president, Panu Ranjan Das, former vice president, Iftekhar Hossain, former first assistant vice president, Debasihish Kumar Baul, former assistant officer, and Aszadur Rahman, former executive vice president.
On May 8, 2016, the national anti-graft body filed a case against them for reportedly swindling out around Tk 10 million from Bangladesh Commerce Bank.
According to the first information report (FIR), two agro firms –Jamuna Agro Company Limited and Udayan Agro Company Limited– in association with the bank officials took a loan of about Tk 8.3 million from Bangladesh Commercial Bank opening 29 letters of credit (LCs) at its Bangshal branch during 2012-2013 to import goods.
Later, the accused in collusion with each other plundered the money. Now the loan amount stands at around Tk 11.2 million with interest, the FIR said On May 11, 2016, the ACC also filed another case against Sawkat Chowdhury and the eight bank officials on charge of swindling about Tk 12 million from the commercial bank. [Read More]

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Source: The Financial Express