Bagerhat: A court here today sentenced a cash officer of Agrani Bank to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over embezzlement of funds. Divisional Special Judge Ashraful Islam also fined the convict, Syed Shion Saif, of the bank’s Morelganj branch in Bagerhat district, Taka 36, 79,350, in default to suffer three months simple imprisonment. The court acquitted another accused in the case, former branch manager Safia Begum, as she was not found guilty. Convicted Saif was absconding at the time of the judgment.
According to Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, the accused, in collusion with each other, embezzled Taka 36, 79,350 between December 8, 2011, and January 6, 2015, through fraud, forgery, manipulation, and abuse of power. The money was siphoned off by making fictitious deposits in loan accounts without vouchers through computer postings, using 21 cheques and two pay slips against 15 account numbers.
The case was filed on April 8, 2015, by the branch manager and senior principal officer of the branch with Morelganj Police. Later, on July 20, 2017, Assistant Director of the Anti-Corruption Commission Abu Hashem Kazi submitted the charge sheet against the two accused while the court framed charges against them on September 29, 2025.