The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday quizzed seven officials of Bangladesh Bank (BB), who are the witnesses to embezzlement of around Tk 372 crore by five little know companies from Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch of the state run Sonali Bank. The officials are Monir Ahammad Sikder, joint director of central bank’s financial integrity and customer services department, M Anowar Hossain deputy director, Mohammad Abdullah-Al-Mamun, assistant director, M Rezaul Islam and M Hasan Askari Bhuiyan, deputy directors of inspection department, M Siddiqur Rahman, join director of foreign exchange inspection department and Kazi Arifur Rahman, deputy director.
A seven-member probe team of the commission, led by its deputy director Mir Joynul Abdin Shibly, interrogated the officials at the ACC headquarters, an ACC official said.
The money was withdrawn from the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch of Sonali Bank during the time between October 2011 and May 2012 by showing fake and forged documents in violation of banking rules, said the ACC official.
The five companies that embezzled the bank’s money 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 26 cases against 18 senior executives of five companies and 17 officials of Sonali Bank over their alleged involvement in swindling the bank money.
-With The Independent input
