ACC prosecutes two Sonali Bank executives over ‘export incentive fraud’

The ACC has prosecuted two officials of Sonali Bank and the managing director of a garment factory for providing false information to get export incentives.

ACC spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said Senior Deputy Director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibli filed the case at Motijheel Police Station.
 
Those accused are former executives of Sonali Bank’s Motijheel branch Md Zakir Hossain and Md Mosharraf Hossain, and Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited Managing Director Ayesha Afroz.
 

Zakir Hossain is now the manager of the bank’s Debidwar branch in Comilla while Mosharraf Hossain is an executive of NCTB branch.

The national antigraft agency alleged in the case that they formed a nexus to embezzle Tk 41.77 million from the bank’s Motijheel branch.

“They withdrew the money in the name of taking export incentive for Oli Knitting Fabric.

“A company can draw the incentive after the entire export money is received. But Oli Knitting had taken the money before it,” an ACC official said, wishing to remain unnamed.

He said the Sonali Bank executives had certified that the firm “received the entire export money.”