ACC quizzes Bacchu over BASIC Bank scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday quizzed former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu over default loan during his tenure in the once profit-making state-owned bank.
An ACC team led by its director Jayed Hossain Khan interrogated Bacchu, said Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee, public relations officer of the commission.
Responding to summon issued by the commission, Bacchu appeared in commission headquarters at Segunbagicha in the city around 10:45am.
The ACC summoned Bacchu on November 16 to record his statement over loan scam following directives from both the High Court Division and the Appellate Division.
In 2015, the ACC sued only 153 petty actors in a series of swindling BASIC Bank.
The serial swindling that occurred from 2009 to 2012, had robbed BASIC Bank of over Tk 6,000 crore.
On November 8, the High Court at a hearing came down heavily on the ACC for allowing the suspect to get away with huge sums of state-owned bank’s money.
The court also criticised the ACC for deliberately omitting the name of principal actors accused in the scams.
BASIC Bank’s detained Gulshan branch manager Sipar Ahmed in his affidavit submitted to the court as an accused said that he had forwarded 22 loan applications to Bacchu on his orders without any scrutiny.
The court had demanded to know why the ACC did not arrest Bacchu and the former directors of the board in one and half years since Sipar’s statement was recorded by its investigators.
News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net
