The courtroom has issued an arrest warrant in opposition to one amongst the country’s high loan defaulters, Ashikur Rahman Lashkar Maheen.
Maintain Mujahidur Rahman of the Money Loan Court docket in Chattogram issued this warrant the day prior to this (2 December) in opposition to the fugitive shipbreaking businessman for now not repaying a loan of Tk189 crore to the National Bank.
The courtroom’s Bench Assistant Rezaul Karim talked about National Bank filed a case in opposition to Gargantuan Shopping and selling Endeavor with the courtroom in 2022 to get better a debt of Tk175 crore.
The decision in the case change into as soon as pronounced on 22 Could, 2023, in favour of the bank, yet Maheen did now not repay the money. So, the bank yet again filed one other loan default case in the same courtroom.
Since defendant Maheen has now not been show in the courtroom since the starting of the case, the courtroom issued a 5-month civil detention mutter in opposition to him the day prior to this (2 December).
Currently, the corporate owes National Bank Tk1,894,858,042, collectively with curiosity.
An legit of the bank on situation of anonymity told The Industry Fashioned that Gargantuan Shopping and selling took this loan from National Bank’s Khatunganj division in 2018. The inform names Md Moazzem Hossain because the managing director of Gargantuan Shopping and selling and his accomplice Sadika Afrin Deepti because the director. Maheen change into as soon as the non-public guarantor.
The identity playing cards of Moazzem and Sadika had been extinct in the loan documents, but they’ve now not been discovered yet. The bank legit moreover alleged that Maheen managed to steal the loan thru his connections with the senior officials of National Bank apart from to officials of Sikder Neighborhood, which owned the bank at the time.
The bank officials animated alleged that Maheen smuggled an unlimited phase of the loans to Canada, Panama and Liberia. To boot, this young entrepreneur is accused of living a luxurious lifestyles, collectively with changing staunch into a director of Meghna Bank, hunting for land, building a luxurious condominium, and hunting for new models of automobiles with the loaned money.
Maheen left the country on 6 March 2023. The day ahead of his departure (5 March), the Money Loan Court docket had imposed a dash ban on him to cease him from leaving the country in the loan default case filed by National Bank.
He had taken a total of about Tk2,000 crore in loans from numerous banks and monetary establishments.
Other than National Bank, Maheen owe Tk1,257 crore to AB Bank, Tk185 crore to Dhaka Bank, Tk100 crore to Mercantile Bank, Tk100 crore to Agrani Bank, Tk72 crore to Phoenix Finance, Tk29 crore to Premier Bank, Tk24 crore to IFIC Bank, Tk19 crore to Fareast Finance and Funding Restricted, and Tk12 crore to Meridian Finance and Funding Restricted.
Maheen took these loans in the title of Maheen Endeavor, Maheen Endeavor Restricted, ARL Shipbreaking Restricted, and ARL Dresses.
