Dhaka: Bangladesh Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday filed a case against six people, including four bank officials, for allegedly swindling out about Tk 10.8 crore from Bangladesh Krishi Bank.

ACC deputy director Md Shamsul Alam filed the case against them with Tejgaon Police Station in capital Dhaka, ACC spokesman Pranab Kumar Bhattachariya told news agency UNB.

The case was filed against managing director of M/S RN Sweaters Limited Rashidun Nabi Chowdhury, its chairman Hosne Zaman Chowdhury, former senior principal officer of Krishi Bank's Karwan Bazar branch Shah Sharfuddin Ahmed, its former assistant general manager Sarwar Hossain, former deputy general manager and branch manager Jubair Manjur and former deputy general manager ABM Ataur Rahman.

According to the case statement, M/s RN Sweaters Limited earlier took loans from Krishi Bank's Karwan Bazar branch showing fake documents and later the top officials of Sweaters Limited in collusion with bank officials swindled out about Tk 10.8 crore from the bank. The company was supposed to export goods with the loan money abroad, but it did not do so.

The case was filed under the Penal Code and the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947.