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BB suspends 9 officials for torn note scam

Staff Correspondent
Bangladesh Bank (BB) yesterday suspended nine officials including a general manager of its Khulna branch on charges of involvement in smuggling out torn notes worth about Tk 28 lakh from the branch.
The officials include Abdus Sattar, genera) manager, deputy directors Mozammel Haque and Syed Hafizur Rahman, assistant directors Kohinoor Akhter, Sheuli Biswas, Sajjad Hossain, Ashok Kumar Sen, Rehana Akhter and another official-- Bazlur Rahman.
Besides, it was decided that four labourers working on daily basis at Khulna branch would be handed over to police.
BB sources said police recently recovered 28 bundles -- each containing 1,000 pieces of torn Tk 500 notes— from public vehicles coming to Dhaka from Khulna.
Though police deposited the notes in BB head office, the bundles were smuggled out to change those for fresh notes later.
Meanwhile, the BB burns
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such torn notes and releases fresh notes in the market as per rule.
The central bank investigated the matter and came to know that the notes were from its Khulna branch. It then suspended the nine officials.
Besides, the BB suspended three officials on Monday for going beyond their jurisdiction to approve change of torn Tk 1,000 notes
The officials are Golam Mostafa, general manager and currency officer of the central bank, and Nurul Haque and Shafiqul Haq, assistant managers.
A BB high official said yesterday they approved some proposals including those for change of a good number of torn Tk 1,000 notes of people. It was beyond their capacity, he added.
Action will be taken against the three following further enquiry into the matter by a BB committee, the official added.
In another incident, a good number of bundles of torn notes went missing, and were recovered from a BB official's possession. Saddarghat BB branch authorities released the accused official simply after giving him warning though rules demand handover of the accused to police.
Investigation is now going on to bring to light why the accused in this case was not handed over to police.