Shawdesh Desk:

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against four people, including Regent Hospital Chairman Md Shahed, on charge of embezzling about Tk 1.51 crore from NRB Bank Ltd through loan forgery.

The rest accused are— Regent Hospital Managing director Ibrahim Khalil, former NRB Bank principal officer M Sohanur Rahman and its SME Banking vice-president Wahid Bin Ahmed.

The commission’s assistant director M Sirajul Haq filed the case with its integrated district office Dhaka-1 accusing the four people, said ACC director (public relations) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

A RAB team arrested Shahed alias Shahed Karim from Satkhira on July 15 in a case filed over his alleged involvement in a recent COVID-19 testing scam and other irregularities.

According to case statement, the people in association each other embezzled the bank money during November 2014 and January 2018.
It said that the NRB Bank did not receive any money from Shahed when he had opened an account with the bank on November 17, 2014.
Just a day after opening the account, the bank officials Sohanur and Wahid gave their consent for the loan approval against Regent Hospital even Shahed had no earlier experience of operating hospital business.

The bank does not search previous records of banking by Shahed while they provide Shahed Tk 2.4 crore as loan.

Shahed in collusion with other three took the Tk 2 crore as loan from the NRB bank from November 9, 2014 to January 15, 2018.  But he did not pay the installments of the loan on time.

The bank authorities adjusted his FDR money and his loan along with interest stood at Tk 1.51 crore which they embezzled, said the case statement.