Staff Correspondent:

A court here on Thursday set September 21 for submitting a probe report in a case filed against 15 people including ace cricketer and former lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan for allegedly embezzling Taka256 crore from the share market through fraud.

Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Md Zakir Hossain Galib passed the order, taking the first information report of the case into cognizance.

The other accused in the case are deputy registrar of the Department of

Cooperatives Abul Khair, his wife Qazi Sadia Hasan, Abul Kalam Matbor, Kanika Afroz, Mohammad Bashar, Sajed Matbor, Aleya Begum, Qazi Fuad Hasan, Qazi Farid Hasan, Shirin AKter, Zaved A Matin, Jahed Kamal, Humayun Kabir and Tanvir Nizam.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Assistant Director Sajjad Hossain filed the case on June 17 last.