DOT Desk: [3] A total amount of Tk19 crore has reportedly gone missing from the vault of the Union Bank’s Gulshan branch, reports TBS.
[4] During a regular visit on Monday, a team of Bangladesh Bank opened the vault and found a big discrepancy between the documents and the money kept in the bank’s vault. [6] In an explanation about the discrepancy in the amount of money in the vault, the authorities of Union Bank have informed that Tk19 crore was given to a VIP customer after banking hours.
[7] “The money was given to a VIP customer after banking hours in the evening,” said Hasan Iqbal, deputy managing director of the bank in a press conference on Thursday. [8] The press conference was held today as news of the missing money circulated on different online portals.Although banking rules were violated through this, such incidents are not new.
Such transactions are for customer-bank relationships, said the bank official.