The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against 10 individuals, including two sons of S Alam Group’s owner Saiful Alam, a former deputy tax commissioner, and seven officials of First Security Islami Bank, for their involvement in a pay-order fraud.
The case was filed on Tuesday, by Md Nizam Uddin, Sub-Assistant Director of the ACC’s headquarters, at the ACC’s Integrated District Office-1 in Chattogram.
Subel Ahmed, Sub-Director of the ACC’s Chattogram Integrated District Office-1, confirmed the matter.
The accused are Saiful Alam’s sons Asadul Alam Mahir and Ashraful Alam, former Deputy Tax Commissioner of Chattogram Tax Zone-1 Aminul Islam, and officials of First Security Islami Bank: Md Helal Uddin, Md Amir Hossain, Md Ahsanul Haque, Md Ruhul Amin, Shamim Akter, Md Anis Uddin, and Gazi Muhammad Yakub.
The complaint states that in 2021, Asadul Alam Mahir submitted tax payment details via a pay-order dated June 29. On the same day, a transaction showing a deposit and withdrawal of Tk 25 crore was recorded in his account.
However, the investigation revealed that the bank account where the transactions were shown was opened in December 2021, five and a half months after the incident. Additionally, no deposit receipt was found.
Similarly, a pay-order was also shown for Ashraful Alam on June 29, 2021, but there was no money in his account on that date, nor was there any deposit receipt.
The charge alleges that, in collusion with bank officials, the accused used technology to manipulate the records, falsely showing transactions from December as if they had occurred in June, thus committing the fraud.
