AL leader Kazi Zafarullah shown arrested in graft case

vBangla Press Desk:  A Dhaka court on Tuesday ordered that Awami League presidium member Kazi Zafarullah be shown as arrested in a graft case.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Sabbir Faiz passed the order following a petition filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC).The anti-graft body filed the case against Zafarullah on 2 February last year over allegations of depositing Tk4.14 crore through a fraud account.

According to the petition seeking his detention, Kazi Zafar Ullah is accused of embezzlement, fraud, criminal breach of trust, and money laundering, which is currently under investigation.

The accused, in collusion with several then officials of The Premier Bank Limited’s Gulshan Branch, opened a total of ten FDR accounts using fictitious names and fake national identity cards and deposited Tk4.14 crore.

Later, he allegedly withdrew an additional Tk42,07,500 through account manipulation as excess interest and subsequently received and concealed the proceeds of crime by encashing the funds in cash under the names of the fake account holders.Source: daily Sun

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