The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against former Deputy General Manager of BASIC Bank Shiper Ahmed on charge of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 1.40 crore.
Assistant Director of the ACC Muhammad Joynul Abdin filed the case against Shiper Ahmed, also former manager of the bank's Gulshan branch, with Ramna Police Station.
According to the first information report,
Shiper Ahmed, now in jail for being accused in the cases of BASIC Bank loan scam, concealed wealth worth Tk 1.30 crore and the Commission found more illegal wealth about Tk 10 lakh from his wealth statement submitted with the Commission.
The FIR also said Shiper purchase a flat in his name and another one in his wife's name at Bashundhara residential area in the capital, which he mentioned in the wealth statement.
Shiper accumulated the wealth from January 2011 to March 2016, it said.
Earlier, the ACC in September 2015 filed 56 cases against 120 people on charge of swindling nearly Tk 2,590 crore from the bank during 2009-2012.
After filing the cases, the Commission had launched at least 10 separate inquiries over illegal wealth accumulated by some officials of the bank, said ACC officials.
The ACC, however, failed to complete the investigation in 19 months after filing the cases dropping name of the prime suspect former chairman of BASIC Bank Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachchu.