Dhaka: A court in Dhaka on Sunday sentenced four people, including a former manager of Uttara Bank branch, in a case filed for embezzlement.

Passing the order, Judge of the Dhaka’s Special Judge Court-5 Akhteruzzaman also fined them Tk 4 crore each, reports UNB.

The convicts are Khan Ahsan Ertajul Islam, former manager of Darus Salam branch of Uttara Bank; Mizanur Rahman, former in-charge of Foreign Exchange; Abdullah Al Mamun, chairman of a garment factory named M/S Apparels Sources Limited; and factory Managing Director Saiful Alam.

All the convicts were tried in absentia.

ACC lawyer Shahin Ahmed Khan said the convicts in collusion with each other misappropriated Tk 4.90 crore through importing raw materials after opening a back-to-back LCs for making garments, which were sold in the local open market.

The then Anti-Corruption Bureau inspector Harun-or-Rashid filed a case with Mirpur Police Station on 5 August 2003.

On 5 December 2012, ACC deputy director Fazlul Bari submitted chargesheet against the four convicts in the case.