Live Correspondent: Director of United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCB) died in a city hospital early Thursday after being infected with coronavirus. He was 72. Farid Uddin Ahmed, who was a member of UCB's risk management committee, breathed his last at City’s Anwar Khan Modern Hospital around 12:30 am while undergoing treatment.

Syed Ashiq Mohammad, first assistant vice-president of the bank, confirmed the matter to media.
He left behind his one son and one daughter to mourn his death. The board of Directors, Management and the UCB family deeply mourned his death.

As a qualified Cost Management Accountant, he joined multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline in 1969 and worked there for about 39 years and led Accounts Department, Internal Audit Department and Supply Chain Department.

For about two decades, he was a course instructor of ICMAB and also held the position of Chairman of Chittagong Branch Council of ICMAB for two terms. He obtained Honour’s and Master’s Degree in Accounting from the University of Dhaka.

Farid Uddin Ahmed was born in February 1948 in a respectable family of Chittagong.
He left behind a son and a daughter along with many well-wishers

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