ACC sues Regent Hospital former Chairman Shahed for embezzling Tk1.51cr

CNI Desk: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday 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 commission’s assistant director M Sirajul Haq filed the case with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1 accusing the four people, said ACC director (public relations) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

The other 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.

According to case statement, without depositing any money, Shahed, on behalf of Regent Hospital, opened a current account with the NRB bank’s SME department on November 17, 2014.

He did not have any prior transaction history with the bank. The bank also did not take enough collateral for the loan.

Despite all these, the bank officials---Wahid Bin Ahmed and M Sohanur Rahman---recommended sanctioning him the loan on November 16, a day before the account was opened.

As per terms and conditions of the loan, Shahed maintained a FDR worth Tk 1 crore. Against the FRD, he, however, received a loan of Tk 2,04,90,987 between November 2014 and January 15, 2018, said the case statement.

Shahed did not repay installments on time. He owed the bank another Tk 65.79 lakh as interests and others. The bank later adjusted the loan with his FDR and deposited interests worth Tk 1.18 crore.

 

But the bank could not recover the remaining Tk 1.51 crore till now which was embezzled by the accused, said the case statement.