Case filed against Hasina, 3 others for allegedly embezzling Tk276 crore

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and another one, for allegedly collecting and embezzling Tk276,34,50,000 from the CSR funds of 41 banks in the country in the name of ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust’.

The other accused in the case is Md. Nazrul Islam Majumder, former president of Bangladesh Association of Banks (BAB) and former chairman of Exim Bank.

Assistant Director of the ACC Headquarters Ismail Hossain filed the case with the commission’s Dhaka-1 office on Thursday as the plaintiff.

ACC Secretary Saidur Rahman Khan informed reporters at a press briefing.

In the briefing, he said, by illegally collecting funds in favour of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust, he committed a punishable offense under Section 409/109 of the Penal Code and Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1947 by causing financial loss to the state. 

The case statement said that the accused collected a total of Tk276,34,50,000 from the CSR funds of 41 banks in favour of the ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Memorial Trust’ ‘through mutual abuse of power and criminal breach of trust’.