Loan Scam
ACC to sue more Sonali officials
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will take legal action against more Sonali Bank officials reportedly involved in a Tk 3,600 crore loan scam.
“Apart from the accused officials of Sonali Bank, the bankers who showed negligence of duty in this regard will be sued,” ACC Secretary M Faizur Rahman Chowdhury told a monthly press briefing of the commission at its headquarters in the capital yesterday.On October 4, the ACC filed 11 cases against Hall-Mark Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud and 26 others, including 20 Sonali Bank officials, with Ramna Police Station on charge of swindling Tk 1,568 crore out of the Ruposhi Bangla branch of the state-owned bank showing fake documents.
Faizur Rahman, however, reiterated that the commission will not file any case to recover the money swindled out of Sonali Bank. “The bank authorities must file cases to recover the money.”
About the ACC activities, Faizur Rahman said the anti-graft body received 9,900 graft allegations during January-October this year and it decided to launch probe into 148 allegations after scrutiny, while 439 allegations have been put forward to the respective ministries or institutions to take departmental actions.
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