BASIC Bank's former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu

BASIC 'plunderers' go happy

In the four years between 2009 and 2013, Tk 4,500 crore was swindled out of BASIC, once a healthy public bank. But what followed was more shocking than the country's biggest loan scam itself.

Bacchu quizzed over BASIC Bank scam

BASIC Bank's former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is being interrogated by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over loan scams worth Tk 4,500 crore.

June 4, 2018
June 4, 2018

BASIC 'plunderers' go happy

In the four years between 2009 and 2013, Tk 4,500 crore was swindled out of BASIC, once a healthy public bank. But what followed was more shocking than the country's biggest loan scam itself.

May 30, 2018
May 30, 2018

Bacchu quizzed over BASIC Bank scam

BASIC Bank's former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu is being interrogated by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over loan scams worth Tk 4,500 crore.