A parliamentary standing committee on Tuesday asked the government to take action against a private company for misappropriating Tk 5.75 crore through cheque forgery.
The committee on Jute and Textile ministry at a meeting asked the action against Adamji Sons Limited for the wrongdoing.
It called the action after reviewing a report the ministry submitted to it following an inquiry.
It asked the chairmen of Janata Bank and Prime Bank to look into the forgery which took place through illegal transactions at their Motijheel branches, said committee sources.
They said that an inquiry by the ministry found that the functionaries of Adamji Sons Limited misappropriated Tk 5,74,81,640 from the two banks through checque forgery.
The ministry informed the committee that it had appointed a three-member committee headed by a joint secretary to investigate into the irregularities.
Accordingly, the committee submitted its report to the parliamentary committee at its meeting on Tuesday.
According to the report the money was withdrawn from five accounts of the company using forged cheques of the two banks.
In the forgery, it found the involvement of the company's general manager Delwar Hossain, deputy general manager Kanti Lal Chakrabarty, manager (Accounts) Ferdous Beg and assistant manager (Accounts) Abdul Matin, said the report.
Committee members Hayatur Rahman Khan, Shafiqul Islam and Abdul Wadud and senior officials of the ministry attended the meeting chaired by its chairman Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury.
Source : New Age
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