A Chattogram court has issued arrest warrant against shipbreaking businessman Ashikur Rahman Lashkar Maheen in connection with a Tk189 crore loan default case.
Decide Mujahidur Rahman of the Chattogram Money Mortgage Court issued the warrant this day (2 December), said assistant of the bench Rezaul Karim.
Nationwide Bank filed the case on 1 December 2022 to enhance the unpaid quantity.
In 2018, Maheen got a Tk175 crore loan from Nationwide Bank’s Khatunganj branch for his ship-breaking change – Huge Procuring and selling Enterprise.
Filed paperwork acknowledged the corporate became once situated in North Sonachari of Sitakunda, but upon investigation, no such institution became once stumbled on, bank officials said.
Unearthing the matter, the bank filed a loan case against three contributors, including Maheen.
Reviewing the case, Chattogram Money Mortgage Court later ordered a trail back and forth ban on Maheen on 5 March closing 365 days.
Nonetheless, Lashkar and his family flew to Dubai thru Chattogram Airport the next day.
A letter on this regard became once sent to the central bank governor, Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Superintendent of Police (Immigration) on 19 March and Maheen’s passport became once suspended (cease checklist) on 21 March, said Muktadir Moula, file keeper on the Money Mortgage Court in Chattogram.
The court negate acknowledged that the loan became once disbursed in violation of existing banking norms.
Furthermore, no repayments had been made for the reason that loans were issued in 2019, it said.
