Chittagong: A Chittagong court today awarded five years imprisonment to three persons including a former manager of Rupali Bank Limited (RBL) on charges of misappropriating money, reported UNB.

The judge of Chittagong Special Judge Court Mir Ruhul Amin pronounced the verdict in a case filed for misappropriating Taka 90 lakh 37 thousand 398, which was received as loan from the bank in the name of a fake shop.

The convicts are - former manager of RBL’ Khatungonj Amir Market Branch AKM Lutfur Rahman, employee of importer organization Muslim & Brothers Mahbubul Islam and former general secretary of Metropolitan Housing Cooperative Association Zakir Hossain.

The court also fined them Taka 30 lakh 12 thousand 466 each, in default to suffer more six months in jail and acquitted three RBL officers - Abul Kalam, Abu Kaisar Chowdhury and MA Hashem of the charges as allegations brought against them were not proved, court sources said.

The prosecution story, in brief, is that the convicts in conveyance with one another misappropriated the loan money preparing false documents between July 4 and September 8 in 1992.

Later, the then Anti-Corruption Bureau (now, Anti-Corruption Commission) filed a case with city’s Kotwali Thana in this connection on August 27, 1994 while the court framed charges against six accused on September 10, 1996.

The court today examined a total of four prosecution witnesses in the trial process and passed the verdict.

Among the convicts, Zakir was sent to the jail while the two other convicts have been absconding.