The case was filed with Motijheel Police Station on Thursday night, accusing Karim and three others. In the FIR (first information report), Karim has been identified as chairman of Belhasa and Associates.

Three other accused, who are also officials of the Oriental Bank, are Shah Md Haroon, senior vice- president, Md Fazlur Rahman, assistant vice-president and AQ Mahmud Ullah, senior assistant vice-president.

ACC Chairman Justice Sultan Hossain Khan told The Daily Star yesterday that official concerned filed the case on Thursday night following commission's approval in this regard the same day.

Breach of trust, forgery, collaboration and misuse of authority are the charges brought against the accused, said an ACC official.

The accused embezzled Tk. 6.7 crore in between June 26, 2005 and June 18, 2006 from the principal branch of the bank.

The ACC filed 34 cases against Oriental Bank employees in late December and January.

But, the name of Obaidul Karim was dropped from those cases though he had been categorically named as the key swindler in the Bangladesh Bank (BB) investigation report. A BB probe accused him of swindling Tk 590 crore out of the problem-ridden private bank.

When the media pointed out to the mysteriously dropping of Karim's name from the ACC cases, its chairman told press that they would file a new case against him.

However, the Oriental Bank on January 25 filed a criminal case against Orion Group chief Obaidul Karim, former managing director Chowdhury Koyes Sami, and 22 other present and former officials of the bank for embezzling Tk 596.44 crore.

Karim was made the chief accused in the case filed with Tejgaon Police Station at the directives of Bangladesh Bank (BB) that acted upon instructions from the government high-ups.