Sonali bank swindled of Tk 42.7 lakh
Staff Correspondent, Khulna
An amount of Tk 42.7 lakh has allegedly been misappropriated from the corporate branch of Sonali Bank, Khulna by producing forged demand drafts. Assistant General Manager of the corporate branch, Mohammod Abdur Rob Mia, lodged an FIR with Khulna thana in this connection on Tuesday accusing two persons. They are Ratan Kumar Roy, proprietor of 'Dola Saree Bitan' and Mir Masudur Rahman, both of Khulna city. In the FIR, the complainant alleged that the accused misappropriated the money through 88 forged demand drafts, produced on different dates in last one and a half months. The misappropriation was detected at 2:30 pm on Monday when accused Ratan Kumar Roy went to the Khan Jahan Ali Road branch of United Commercial Bank (UCBL) to draw money. The complainant further mentioned in the FIR that the demand drafts were issued in the names of the accused by Al Razi Investment Corporation and later the money was drawn from Uttara Bank at Sir Iqbal Road, UCBL at Khan Jahan Ali Road, Standard Bank at Khan A Sabur Road, National Bank at KDA road and Janata Bank at Shiromoni in the city. Police arrested accused Ratan Kumar Roy on Tuesday from his house at Sonadanga and recovered from him two forged demand drafts, some deposit books of five banks and photocopies of some passport books. The other accused is absconding.
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