Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday arrested a Bangladesh Bank general manager (accounts and audit) and another person for their reported involvement in embezzling Tk 325 crore in loans of AB Bank.

An ACC team, led by its director AKM Jahid Hossain Khan, arrested general manager Badrul Haque Khan in Dhaka, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya confirmed.

Another team of the commission detained Rising Steel Mills director Jasim Uddin in Chittagong.

On Saturday night, deputy assistant director of the ACC’s Chittagong Office Manik Lal Das charged six people, including BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury and Badrul Haque Khan (then deputy managing director of AB Bank), for allegedly swindling out Tk 325 crore out of the private bank.

The case was filed with the Double Mooring Police Station in Chittagong.

Other accused of the case are former managing director of AB Bank Fazlur Rahman, chairman of Rising Steel Mills Jamila Naznin Mowla (also wife of Aslam Chowdhury), managing director of the steel mills Amjad Hossain Chowdhury and its director Jasim Uddin.

According to the first information report (FIR), Rising Steel Mills earlier took out Tk 325 crore loan from Agrabad branch of the AB Bank opening letters of credits (LCs) using fake documents.

Later, all the accused in collusion with each other swindled out the amount from the bank.

BNP leader Aslam Chowdhury is now in jail in a treason case.