BD-Thai Aluminium Ltd yesterday filed an appeal with a Dhaka court seeking scrapping of a part of the stockmarket scam probe report that accuses the company of siphoning off Tk 15 crore.
BD-Thai Aluminium Ltd yesterday filed an appeal with a Dhaka court
seeking scrapping of a part of the stockmarket scam probe report that
accuses the company of siphoning off Tk 15 crore.
The aluminium
products manufacturer also served a legal notice upon the probe
committee asking them to pay Tk 100 crore in compensation for making
"false" and "fabricated" statements about the company.
It termed
the allegations "false, fabricated and unfounded" and requested the
court to summon eight people including Khondkar Ibrahim Khaled, head of
the stockmarket scam probe team, to explain the claims.
After
hearing the appeal filed in the form of a case, Judge Aftabuzzaman of
the Court of Second Assistant Judge, Dhaka asked Ibrahim Khaled and
seven others to appear before it on June 12.
Advocate Abdus Selim Miah, law officer of the company, filed the case.
Ibrahim Khaled, chairman of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, submitted the stockmarket probe report to the finance minister on April 7.
He later told the media that they found evidence of BD-Thai siphoning off Tk 15 crore from the share market.
His statement appeared on different national dailies and tarnished the image of the company, BD-Thai said.
The
eight defendants include the three other members of the probe committee
-- Mohammad Abdul Bari, former president of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants of Bangladesh; Toufic A Choudhury, director general of
Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management; and Nihad Kabir, a Supreme
Court lawyer.
The other defendants are the chairman of Securities
and Exchange Commission, the director general of Foreign Commerce
Control Department of Bangladesh Bank, the managing director of City
Bank, and the chief executive officer of Dhaka Stock Exchange.
The
legal notice of the company states that Khaled, a former deputy
governor of Bangladesh Bank, in an interview with ATN Bangla TV channel
said the committee got evidence of siphoning off Tk 15 crore by Gem
Global in collusion with BD-Thai.
The interview was aired on April 7 and 8, it added.
BD-Thai
also asked the members of the probe committee, which implicated top
politicians and businessmen, to send a written apology to the company
within 15 days for making the statements in their probe report.
In default, the company will file a suit for compensation of Tk 100 crore for making defamatory statements, the notice added.
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Sohel Rana, a lawyer of Dr Hamid and Associates, served the legal
notice on behalf of BD-Thai, saying the interview of Ibrahim Khaled was
mala fide, untrue, defamatory, and biased and damaged the social and
business reputation of his client.
BD-Thai is one of the
largest manufacturers of anodised and powder coated aluminium profiles,
doors, windows, and curtain walls and allied items in Bangladesh.
Its share traded at Tk 875, down by 3.07 percent, on Dhaka Stock Exchange yesterday.
