Hall-Mark Loan Scam
ACC quizzes seven Janata Bank officials
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday quizzed seven Janata Bank officials, including its general manager (GM) and deputy general manager (DGM), in connection with the Hall-Mark loan scam.
A six-member ACC team interrogated the bank's officials regarding the loan's non-funded portion, ACC sources said. Non-funded loans are the loans which are taken in the form of guarantee against letter of credits (LCs) while funded loans are taken in cash.
The officials are GM Aminul Islam, DGM Joynal Abedin, AGM Ruhul Amin, Manager Export Alauddin Akond, and Export-in-Charge Abdul Gafur of the bank's local branch in the capital's Motijheel area.
The other officials are senior executive officers AK Azad and MM Soebul Kabir of Elephant Road Brach.
ACC DD SMM Akhter Hamid Bhuiyan said the bank officials denied their involvement in the scam.
ACC Commissioner Mohammad Shahabuddin said they have almost completed inquiry into the non-funded loan of Tk 1,118 crore and involving 26 banks including Sonali and Janata.
Earlier, ACC completed its enquiry into the loan scam's funded portion of over Tk 1,568 crore and filed 11 cases last month.
According to a Bangladesh Bank report, Sonali Bank's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch gave loan of Tk 3,547 crore to Hall-Mark Group and five other companies defying banking rules.
Of the loan, Hall-Mark alone took Tk 2,686 crore.
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