A Chittagong court yesterday sent two persons, including a branch manager of Mutual Trust Bank (MTB), to jail after they surrendered before it in a Tk 3 crore loan scam case.

The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case against five people with Bandar Police Station on January 11 for misappropriating around Tk 3.19 crore of Pubali Bank’s Port Branch between 2004 and 2016.

Yesterday, Zakir Hossen, incumbent branch manager of MTB’s Raipur branch in Laxmipur, and Anisul Alam of Raozan, guarantor for the loan, were sent to jail as their anticipatory bail secured on January 23 for six weeks expired, said Public Prosecutor Sanwar Ahmed Lavlu.

Other accused are: Md Hossen, the borrower, Md Nurul Kabir, incumbent deputy general manager of Pubali Bank’s CDA Branch, and Md Shahbuddin, another guarantor for Hossen.

According to the case statement, an expatriate Shahadat Hossen took a loan of Tk 1.38 crore from United Commercial Bank’s Khatunganj Branch in 2004.

But, a syndicate forged all his loan documents and submitted them to Pubali Bank’s Port Branch on behalf of Md Hossen, a businessman.

The then branch manager, Nurul Kabir, and the then bank officer Zakir approved and forwarded the documents to the higher authorities concerned. The syndicate then withdrawn TK 3, 18, 55000 crore from the bank between October 10, 2004 and August 10, 2016, it added.