A Chattogram court on Monday sentenced two people including a former banker for several years in a case over the embezzlement of Tk 50 lakh from accounts of customers from 2014 to 2019.
The court of Chattogram Divisional Special Judge Munshi Abdul Majid also fined the convicts, said Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) lawyer Mahmudul Hoque, also public prosecutor of the court.
Of the convicts, the port city’s OR Nizam Road Branch former Manager of private Eastern Bank Md Iftekharul Kabir was sentenced 26 years’ imprisonment and fined Tk 1.04 crore, in default of which he will have to serve three more years’ jail.
Apart from this, one Nishat Enterprise owner Mahmudul Hasan, a resident of the city’s Khulshi area, was awarded 13 years jail and fined Tk 76.30 lakh, otherwise he will have to stay in jail for 16 more months.
to the case, the banker in collaboration with Hasan misappropriated Tk 50 lakh from FDR accounts of Ananya Barua, Rupon Ksihore Barua and Suprova Barua after opening a fake account from 2014 to 2019.
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Nurul Islam, deputy assistant director of ACC at Chattogram integrated office, filed a case against the duo on November 17, 2019.
The court on Monday delivered the judgment in presence of the accused upon completion of all legal procedures, the PP added.