A list of the top 20 loan defaulters of the country has been unveiled in the Jatiya Sangsad.
Finance Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury disclosed the list in the House in his scripted answer to a question from Cumilla-4 MP Abul Hasnat, popularly known as Hasnat Abdulla.
The list of the top 20 loan defaulters includes S Alam Super Edible Oil Limited, S Alam Vegetable Oil Limited, Salam Refined Sugar Industries Limited, S Alam Cold Rolled Steels Limited, Sonali Traders, Bangladesh Export-Import Company Ltd (Beximco), Global Trading Corporation Limited, Chemon Ispat Limited, S Alam Trading Company (Pvt) Ltd, and Infinite CR Strips Industries Limited.
It also includes Keya Cosmetics Limited, Deshbandhu Sugar Mills Limited, PowerPac Mutiara Keraniganj Power Plant Ltd, PowerPac Mutiara Jamalpur Power Plant Ltd, Pacific Bangladesh Telecom Limited, Karnafuly Foods (Pvt) Ltd, Murad Enterprise, CLC Power Company Limited, Beximco Communications Limited, and Rongdhanu Builders (Pvt) Ltd.
The minister also mentioned that the total amount of defaulted loans in the banking sector stood at Tk5,44,831.88 crore as of December 2025.
He added that the government has taken various stringent measures to recover the loans.
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