Hall-Mark Loan Scam
Sonali Bank's high officials involved
Says an AGM
Several high officials of the Sonali Bank's Hotel Ruposhi Bangla branch are involved in Hall-Mark loan scam, said Shyamal Kanti Nag, an assistant general manager (AGM) of the bank's head office, yesterday.
He, however, denied his involvement in the scam.
Shyamal spoke to the reporters on his way out of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)'s Segunbagicha office in the afternoon, where he was called for interrogation.
"After we heard about the loan scam through newspapers the head office formed a three-member team including me and sent us to the branch for investigation. We discovered that Hall-Mark misappropriated the bank's money through Inland Bill Purchase (IBP) using forged documents," he said.
“As we probed deeper into the matter we found some high officials of the branch were involved,” he added.
However, he declined to reveal the identities of those officials. When asked how many of them are involved in the scam, Shyamal chose to ignore the question.
A Bangladesh Bank (BB) investigation found that the Hotel Ruposhi Bangla branch of the Sonali Bank had lent Hall-Mark Group and five other companies Tk 3,547 crore between 2010 and May this year on forged documents.
Of the amount, Hall-Mark alone borrowed Tk 2,667 crore.
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