Loan scam
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
7 May 2025, 19:37 PM
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.
12 September 2023, 18:00 PM
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.
9 December 2022, 01:30 AM
Saving our ailing banking sector
Bangladesh's banking sector faces a number of major challenges including rising nonperforming loans, credit concentrations, poor
26 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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.
4 October 2018, 18:00 PM
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.
18 September 2017, 18:00 PM
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.
8 June 2016, 18:00 PM
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.
30 April 2016, 18:00 PM
Loan scam: BASIC Bank GM held
The Anti-Corruption Commission arrests a top official of state-owned BASIC Bank in connection with a loan scam.
5 April 2016, 12:52 PM
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.
28 March 2016, 11:56 AM
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.
16 March 2016, 13:44 PM
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.
17 November 2015, 11:12 AM
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.
13 April 2015, 06:42 AM