Two business persons held

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday arrested two businessmen in a case filed over a Tk 76 crore loan scam at BASIC Bank.

Sarwar Jahan and Tamim Suja, directors of MRL Auto Bricks, were arrested from Jamalpur around 10:30am, said ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

The ACC filed the case with Paltan Police Station on September 23 last year.

It is one of the 56 cases lodged by the anti-graft watchdog last year, accusing 110 people and organisations of irregularities in disbursing loans of about Tk 4,500 crore from BASIC Bank.

Twenty-seven of the accused were bank officials and the rest were borrowers and surveyors, according to the ACC.