Former BDBL GM sent to jail

A Dhaka court has sent Syed Nurur Rahman Kadri, former General Manager (GM) of Bangladesh Development Bank Ltd, to jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for embezzling Tk 174 crore using forged documents.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes passed the order on Monday.

Earlier, ACC deputy director Gulshan Anwar Prodhan, also Investigation Officer (IO) of the case, produced him before the court.

On Sunday, ACC arrested him from the capital’s Matsya Bhaban area.

On September 2, the ACC filed a case against former general manager Syed Nurur Rahman and 10 others on charges of misappropriating around Tk 174 crore from the state-run bank using forged documents.

The other accused are BDBL’s former senior principal officer (SPO) Dinesh Chandra Saha, chairman of MM Vegetable Oil Products Hefazatur Rahman, its managing director Jahir Uddin and directors Kamal Uddin, Kafil Uddin, Rafiq Uddin, Shafiq Uddin and Jasim Uddin, proprietor of Lucida Trading Mohammad Nasir Uddin Chowdhury, and proprietor of Globe International Mahbubul Alam Chowhdury.

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