The Daily Star, 3 October 2012
Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday asked the chairman and all directors of Sonali Bank to submit their wealth statements to it.
The ACC in a primary investigation has found no involvement of the governing body directors in the Sonali Bank loan scam, ACC Chairman Ghulam Rahman told journalists at his office in the afternoon.
Meanwhile, the anti-graft body will file cases against 27 senior officials of the Hall-Mark Group and Sonali Bank for the Tk 2,686-crore loan scam on Thursday, Ghulam said.
The graft watchdog was due to file the cases today, but some legal procedure delayed the matter, he added.
Eleven cases would be filed against six Hall-Mark officials, including its Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud and Chairman Jesmine Islam, and 21 officials of the state-run bank, including AKM Azizur Rahman, a former manager of its Rupashi Bangla Hotel branch, said Mohammad Shahabuddin, commissioner of the anti-graft body on Tuesday.
The charges include misappropriation, forgery, money laundering, cheating and breach of trust, he told The Daily Star.
A six-member enquiry team led by ACC Deputy Director Mir Mohammad Zainul Abedin Shibli on Tuesday submitted a report on the loan scam.
“On receiving the enquiry report, we gave our consent to filing the cases,” Shahabuddin said.
Since its formation on July 16, the probe committee interrogated 52 Sonali Bank officials and seven of Hall-Mark.
The ACC investigation found that Tanvir had swindled the money out through five categories of bank transactions against fake documents during the tenure (between 2008 and May this year) of the then manager of the bank’s Rupashi Bangla Hotel branch Azizur Rahman.
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