'The bank is harassing me commercially and socially by imposing the liability on me'Imagine you have Tk 42 lakh in your bank account and one fine day you see that Tk 35 lakh has disappeared into thin air. “This allegation might be against Farmers Bank but we are now Padma Bank,” he told Dhaka Tribune yesterday. It is from this account that the bank transferred Tk 35 lakh to two separate accounts through two transactions. Exasperated, the customer last year brought the matter to the central bank’s notice, stating that the Padma bank authorities fraudulently withdrew Tk 35 lakh from his account. The state-owned financial institution Investment Corporation of Bangladesh, Sonali Bank, Janata Bank, Agrani Bank and Rupali Bank bought 60 per cent stakes in the bank for Tk 715 crore.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 08, 2021 19:41 UTC