Farmers Bank ex-audit committee chief, 3 others remanded

A Dhaka court placed four people including a former audit committee chairman of Farmers Bank on remand hours after they were arrested today on charge of laundering Tk 160 crore from the bank.

Mahbubul Haque Chisty, a former audit committee chairman of Farmers Bank, was placed on a five-day remand while his son Rashedul Haque and two employees of the bank -- Ziauddin Ahmed and Masudur Rahman were placed on a four-day remand each.

Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi passed the order when Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) produced them before him this afternoon with a 10-day remand prayer for each.

Earlier around 1:30pm, the anti-graft body, ACC, arrested the four persons from the capital’s Segunbagicha area, ACC Deputy Director Shamsul Alam told The Daily Star.

A case was filed with Gulshan Police Station accusing the four allegedly for laundering Tk 160 crore from the bank, the ACC official said.