The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday quizzed seven officials of Bangladesh Bank (BB) as witness of embezzlement of around Tk 372 crore by five signboard based companies from Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch of the state run Sonali Bank.The officials are: join director of central bank’s financial integrity and customer services department Monir Ahammad Sikder, deputy director M Anowar Hossain, assistant director Mohammad Abdullah-Al-Mamun, deputy directors of inspection department M Rezaul Islam and M Hasan Askari Bhuiyan, join director of foreign exchange inspection department M Siddiqur Rahman and deputy director Kazi Arifur Rahman.
The seven-member probe team of the commission led by its deputy director Mir Joynul Abdin Shibly interrogated them at ACC head quarter, says an ACC official.
The money was embezzled from the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch of Sonali Bank in between October 2011 and May 2012 in violation of banking rules, said the ACC official.
The five companies those embezzled the bank’s money by showing fake and forged documents are: T & Brothers Limited, Paragon Knit Composite Limited, Nakshi Knit Composite Limited and Khan Jahan Ali Sweaters Limited and DN Sports Limited.
Earlier in January this year, the commission filed as many as 26 cases against 18 senior executives of five companies and 17 officials of Sonali Bank over their alleged involvement in swindling of the money. – Staff Reporter
