Rupali Bank manager sued over Mahasthangarh shrine fund embezzlement

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a case on Monday against three people, including the manager of Rupali Bank Mahasthangarh branch in Bogura, over the embezzlement of Tk84.6 lakh of Mahasthangarh Mazar Committee.

Rabindranath Chaki, deputy director of the ACC in Bogura, filed the case with the graft watchdog’s district office.

According to the charge sheet, Rupali Bank Mahasthangarh branch Manager Jubayenur Rahman along with a businessman named Zahedur Rahman illegally transferred Tk49 lakh from the bank account of Mahasthangarh Mazar Committee to their personal accounts in July 2017.

In January of the same year, Jubayenur had embezzled Tk35.6 lakh from the same account along with another businessman named Fazlur Rahman Montu.

Jubayenur has been suspended from his post over the case.