Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will file 15 more cases on Wednesday night in connection with the swindling of money from state-run Basic Bank Limited.

ACC inquiry officials are now preparing first information reports (FIRs) and they will file the cases tonight, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.

ACC filed 23 cases against 69 people for allegedly swindling about Tk 781 crore from Basic Bank. ACC inquiry officials filed 11 cases with Gulshan police while eight with Paltan police and four with Motijheel police on Tuesday night.

Former managing director of Basic Bank Kazi Fakhrul Islam and deputy managing director Fazlus Sobhan were sued in most of the 23 cases, releasing the key graft suspect, ex-chairman of the bank Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu.

Twenty-two Basic Bank officials were sued in the cases while the remaining are officials of 24 private firms which took loans from Basic Bank showing fake documents.

On Monday, the national anti-graft body also filed 18 cases in connection with swindling of around Tk 747 crore from state-run Basic Bank.

ACC deputy director Mahbubul Alam and deputy assistant directors AKM Fazle Hossain and Zainal Abedin filed the cases against 153 people, including former managing director Kazi Fakhrul Islam, for allegedly plundering the amount from Gulshan and Motijheel local branches of Basic Bank.

Although 153 people were sued in the cases, the number of actual accused would be less as many of them are common in the cases.

On 9 September, the ACC approved proposals to file 54 cases against 80-85 individuals, including bank officials.

According to a Bangladesh Bank inquiry, about Tk 4,500 crore was swindled out from Basic Bank in the last six years when Sheikh Abdul Hye Bachhu was its chairman.