Misappropriation of Tk 3.77cr: 2 Dhaka Bank officials shown arrested

Two officials of Dhaka Bank's Bangshal branch were shown arrested yesterday in a case filed against them over misappropriation of Tk 3.77 crore that went missing from the bank's vault.

They are: Rifatul Haque, senior officer and cash in-charge of the bank's Bangshal branch; and Emran Ahmed, manager (operation) of the same branch.

Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of Senior Special Judge's Court of Dhaka passed the order after Md Humayun Kabir, an assistant director of the Anti-Corruption Commission and also the investigation officer of the case, submitted an application for showing them arrested in the case.

The court also directed the investigators to submit by September 20 the probe report of the case.

ACC Assistant Director Atiqul Alam on Saturday filed the case against the duo with Dhaka Co-ordinated Office -1, ACC.

On Friday, another Dhaka court sent them to jail after they were produced before it -- showing them arrested under Section 54 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).

Before that an audit team on June 18 found that Tk 3.77 crore had been missing from the vault of the Dhaka Bank's Bangshal branch. The audit team submitted a money mismatch statement to the branch manager then.

When the manager asked them about it, Rifatul and Emran primarily admitted that they removed the money from the vault of the bank.

The bank authorities handed them over to Bangshal police.