A Dhaka court has sent six people, including former member of parliament Major (retd) Abdul Mannan, and also the former chairman of Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company Limited (BIFC), to jail in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission.
Judge Ash-Shams Jaglul Hossain of Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge's Court on Thursday passed the order after Mannan, also former Bikalpadhara Bangladesh secretary general, and five others surrendered before it and sought bail.
Five other accused are ANM Jahangir Alam, Enamur Rahman, Syed Fakre Faysal, AKM Mohiuddin Ahmed and Rois Uddin Ahmed. They all are former directors of the company.
The judge, however, granted bail to BIFC former managing director Md Mahmud Malik and its director Rokeya Sultana after they surrendered before it in the same case.
ACC Deputy Director Abdul Majed filed the case on December 18, 2022, with its integrated district office in Dhaka-1, against 12 people, including Major Mannan over the embezzlement.
According to the case documents, BIFC chairman Mannan, directors and officials in association with each other distributed Tk 8 crore as a loan to Aminur Rahman, the owner of Telecom Service Enterprise, without a security deposit and mortgage.
Later, they transferred the money to different bank accounts.
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