The High Court on Sunday raised the question of why the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) was not bringing the big loan defaulters who are misappropriating thousands of crores of money to its book.
While holding hearing on a bail petition the High Court bench of Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder and Justice Khizir Hayat also questioned, “Will the big loan defaulters remain untouched?”
The High Court said the loan defaulters are not more powerful than the law. Then why the Anti-Corruption Commission is not taking effective actions against the major loan defaulters, asked the court.
The bench observed that the ACC is busy catching only the small loan defaulters, but not the major ones.
The court made the comments while hearing a petition filed by ACC lawyers Khurshid Alam Khan and MA Aziz Khan.
They filed the petition seeking cancellation of a bail granted by a lower court to ASM Ahsanul Kabir, a former official of Shahjalal Islami Bank, in connection with a loan scam case.
The ACC filed the case in 2013 over embezzlement of money by Bismillah Group from the bank. The HC bench also expressed dissatisfaction over the ACC for not submitting charge sheet of the case even over the years.
According to the case documents, ACC submitted a charge sheet against 14 including ASM Ahsanul Kabir on October 29 in 2015 in the case. Later a trial court on October 17 in 2017 granted…
