Loan scam

‘Tk 270cr scam’: ACC sues Saiful Alam, PK Halder, 13 others

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed three separate cases against 15 individuals, including S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and Proshanta Kumar Halder, former managing director of Reliance Finance Limited (now Aviva Finance), over the alleged embezzlement and laundering of approximately Tk 270 crore from non-bank financial institutions.

S Alam, associates laundered money thru shell firms

Mohammed Saiful Alam and his family have acquired vast wealth at home and abroad, using money siphoned off through loans taken in the name of front companies

Janata’s great leniency to an errant client

Troubled state-run lender Janata Bank continues to be overly lenient towards AnonTex Group, one of its five large borrowers, despite negligible loan recovery in 13 years from the garment manufacturer.

Anti-corruption day: Cases filed, but no progress in probes

Several big loan scams in the banking and financial sectors came to the fore in the last decade and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has done its job by filing cases. But, no progress is apparent.

Saving our ailing banking sector

Bangladesh's banking sector faces a number of major challenges including rising nonperforming loans, credit concentrations, poor

Several people involved in Tk 4 crore loan scam

The Anti-Corruption Commission has found the involvement of several people in the forgery of two loans acquired from Farmers Bank, ACC Chairman Iqbal Mahmood yesterday said.

BASIC Bank Loan Scam: 50 ghost firms traced

BASIC Bank has finally been able to trace 50 firms which took loans from the bank showing fake documents with the help of its former chairman Abdul Hye Bachchu.

Tk 250cr Loan Scam / ACC quizzes 5 more Janata Bank officials as witnesses

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated five more senior officials of Janata Bank as witnesses in a graft case filed over Tk 250 crore loan scam.

BASIC Scam / 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.

March 28, 2016
March 28, 2016

Loan scam: BASIC Bank official among 4 held

ACC arrests four people including an official of the BASIC Bank in Dhaka in connection with swindling of huge amount of money from the bank.

March 16, 2016
March 16, 2016

Loan scam: HC clears way for trail of Hall Mark GM

The High Court clears the way for continuing trial of Hall Mark Group General Manager Tusher Ahmed in nine separate loan-scam cases.

November 17, 2015
November 17, 2015

Why BASIC Bank’s Bacchu not implicated: HC

High Court issues a rule asking why BASIC Bank’s former chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu will not be implicated in cases filed over loan scam worth Tk 154 crore.

April 13, 2015
April 13, 2015

7 ex-officials of Oriental Bank handed 10yr jail

Seven former officials of Oriental Bank are sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment for embezzling Tk 1 crore in the name of disbursement.

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