Banker embezzles Tk 3.7m counterfeiting dead man’s signature

Money-Laundering. Credit. UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)_

Special Correspondent

A Dhaka court Monday asked the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to submit investigation report in a case filed against two bankers for embezzling Tk 3.7 million counterfeiting the signature of a dead man.

Dead Mostafizur Rahman Alamgir’s brother-in-law lodged the case with the CMM Court of Dhaka against two bankers for misappropriation Tk 3.7 million counterfeiting his dead brother-in-law’s (sister’s husband) signature in the bank Sunday.

The accused people are- Pubali Bank’s Chawkbazar branch’s Principal Officer Md Sharif Pradhan and AGM Md Rafiqul Islam of the same branch.

Magistrate Begum Yasmin Ara of Dhaka CMM Court passed the order after recording the statement of the complainant on Monday.

The case dossier says that Mostafizur Rahman first married Sharif Pradhan’s wife’s elder sister Nazma Akter. Nazma died in 2018 leaving no issue. Later, on February 29, last year, he married the complainant’s younger sister Rabeya Akter. Mostafiz was the owner of by-cycle parts shop named Popular Cycle Math at Nazirabazar in the city. Belal gave him a cheque for Tk 3.7 million. Mostafizi gave the cheque to Sharif Prodhan for encashment as he became ill on the spot.

Later he became a corona positive patient and he told his wife Rabeya Akter about the cheque. He died on March 25. After his death when Sharif Pradhan was asked to return the cheque he refused to do that. Later, the complainant of the case lodged a General Diary (GD) with Bangshal Police Station of the city.

After investigation it has been learnt that Sharif Prodhan withdrew Tk 3.7 million from the bank counterfeiting the signature of Mostafizur Rahman with the help of his cohort Rafiqul Islam.