Ex-banker, 3 others get imprisonment in graft case

A Dhaka court on Tuesday sentenced M Naimul Islam, former Principal Officer of Sonali Bank, and three others to different jail terms in a graft case filed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on charges of embezzlement.

Naimul was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment altogether in two separate cases of fraudulency and embezzlement. In the two cases, he was also fined Taka 50,000 and 81 lakh respectively.

The other three accused in the case-- Sonali Bank Accountant Rafiqul Islam, M. Al-Amin and Mosammat Lipi Begum-- were sentenced to five years of imprisonment, each, with a fine of Taka 81 lakh, each.

Judge M Iqbal Hossain of Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 handed down the verdict this morning.

According to the case document, from December 26, 2017 to June 21, 2018, the accused fraudulently embezzled around Taka 1.20 crore by transferring money without depositing it, in connivance with each other.

M. Moniruzzaman, deputy general manager of Sonali Bank, filed the case with Motijheel Police Station on June 23, 2018.

On February 19, 2020, ACC Deputy Assistant Director M. Abul Kalam Azad filed chargesheet against the four.

On March 8, 2022 the trial began.

/MHK/