The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday arrested two former officials of Biman Bangladesh Airlines in a case filed over causing loss to government exchequer from the capital’s Segunbagicha area.

The arrestees were identified as Biman former director (Marketing and Sell) Mohammad Ali Ahsan and its former deputy general manager (DGM) Iftekhar Hossain Chowdhury.

ACC public relations officer (PRO) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee confirmed this to the daily sun.

Earlier in the morning, ACC assistant director Md Nasir Uddin filed a case with its integrated district office 1 in Dhaka against 16 Biman officials including the duo on the charge of casing huge loss to the government exchequer, he said.

The ACC PRO also said, “The accused have caused Tk 118 crore loss to the government exchequer by not collecting cargo handling charge of the Biman Bangladesh Airlines.”