The court docket has issued an arrest warrant in opposition to in fact one of the country’s prime mortgage defaulters, Ashikur Rahman Lashkar Maheen.
Mediate Mujahidur Rahman of the Chattogram Monetary Debt Court docket issued this present an explanation for the old day (3 December) in opposition to this fugitive shipbreaking businessman for not repaying a mortgage of Tk189 crore to National Monetary institution.
Bench Assistant of the Monetary Debt Court docket, Rezaul Karim, talked about National Monetary institution filed a case in opposition to Huge Trading Endeavor in the Monetary Debt Court docket in 2022 to get better a debt of Tk175 crore.
The decision in the case became once pronounced on 22 Can also 2023 in favour of the bank, yet he did not repay the money. So, the bank again filed one other case in the identical court docket.
For the explanation that defendant Maheen has not been fresh in the court docket since the open of the case, the court docket issued a 5-month civil detention present an explanation for in opposition to him the old day (3 December). Currently, the company owes National Monetary institution Tk1,894,858,042 including hobby.
An legit of National Monetary institution on condition of anonymity talked about Huge Trading took this mortgage from National Monetary institution’s Khatunganj division in 2018. The doc names Md Moazzem Hossain because the managing director of Huge Trading and his wife Sadika Afrin Deepti because the director. Maheen became once the interior most guarantor.
The identity playing cards of the 2 of us as adverse to had been feeble in the mortgage paperwork, they are absconding. The bank legit moreover alleged Maheen took the mortgage via his connections with the head of National Monetary institution, its senior officers to boot to officers of Sikder Community which owned the bank at the time.
Even supposing the bank paperwork mention the tackle of Huge Trading in North Sonachhari, Sitakunda, no such establishment exists there, nor became once there any collateral in opposition to this mortgage.
The bank officers enthusiastic alleged that he smuggled a dapper segment of the loans to Canada, Panama and Liberia. To boot, this young entrepreneur is accused of living a plush life, including changing staunch into a director of Meghna Monetary institution, shopping land, building a plush home, and shopping contemporary objects of vehicles with mortgage money.
Maheen left the country on 6 March 2023. The day forward of his departure (5 March), the Monetary Crimes Court docket banned him from leaving the country in the mortgage default case filed by National Monetary institution.
He had taken a total of about Tk2,000 crore in loans from varied banks and financial institutions.
Other than National Monetary institution, Maheen has excellent debts of Tk1,257 crore from AB Monetary institution, Tk185 crore from Dhaka Monetary institution, Tk100 crore from Mercantile Monetary institution, Tk100 crore from Agrani Monetary institution, Tk72 crore from Phoenix Finance, Tk29 crore from Premier Monetary institution, Tk24 crore from IFIC Monetary institution, Tk19 crore from Fareast Finance and Funding Cramped and Tk12 crore from Meridian Finance and Funding Cramped.
Maheen took these loans in the title of Maheen Endeavor, Maheen Endeavor Cramped, ARL Shipbreaking Cramped and ARL Garments.
