DHAKA:  A court in Dhaka Thursday sent three senior officers of Basic Bank, including two deputy-managing directors (DMD), to jail in two cases over Tk 2000-crore loan scam.

The court of Metropolitan magistrate Kaisarul Islam passed the order after Anti-Corruption Commission produced the detainees before it with 14-day remand plea.

The court also set January 11 (Monday) for remand hearing.

Earlier in the day, Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) detained sacked three senior officers of Basic Bank, including two deputy-managing directors (DMD), over Tk 2000-crore loan scam.

The detained officers are DMDs Fazlus Sobhan and m Selim while Deputy General Manager (DGM) Shiper Ahmed.

The anti-graft watchdog picked up them from in front of Sena Kalyan Bhaban in city’s Motijheel area around 2:00pm of Thursday.

ACC deputy director (public relation) Pronab Kumar Bhattachariya told banglanews that they were detained in 53 and 54 number cases filed with Motijheel Thana by the ACC.

After detention, a team of ACC led-by its deputy director Rittik Saha interrogated the former Basic Bank officers

The ACC will produce them before court with a seven-day remand petition.

Earlier on December 9, 2015, three deputy-managing directors (DMDs) and two general managers (GMs) of the Basic Bank were removed over misappropriating money.

BDST:  1704/1919 HRS, JAN 7, 2016
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