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Former BB official gets 10-year jail for embezzling money
DHAKA, Feb 17, 2019 (BSS) – A Dhaka court today sentence former assistant
director of Bangladesh Bank SM Gias Uddin to 10-year imprisonment for
embezzling money.
Judge Joynal Abedin of Dhaka Special Judge Court-10 passed the order in
presence of the convict, and fined him Taka 64.33 lakh for the crimes.
The court also acquitted two others as the prosecution failed to prove the
charges against them.
According to the case documents, the convict in collusion with others
embezzled Taka 52.59 lakh by opening fake accounts with different branches of
the bank across the country.
The case was filed on May 25, 1997, with Motijheel Police Station and the
investigation officer Md Abdul Hannan filed charge sheet on January 5, 2003.
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