Tk 2.16cr Graft: Ex-Sonali Bank MD jailed for 17 yrs

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced eight people, including six former officials of Sonali Bank Limited, to 17 years in jail in a case filed over embezzling Tk 2.16 crore.

The convicts are the bank's former managing director Humayun Kabir, deputy managing director Mainul Haque, general manager Noni Gopal Nath, deputy general manager Sofiz Uddin Ahmed, and assistant general managers Saiful Hasan and Kamrul Hossain Khan.

Two other convicts are Saiful Islam Raza, managing director of Paragon Knit Composite Ltd, a sister concern of Hallmark Group, and one of its directors Abdullah Al Mamun.

The bank's former deputy general manager Sheikh Altaf Hossain was acquitted as he was paralysed, even though the charges were proven.

Judge Mohammad Iqbal Hossain of the Special Judge's Court-5 of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of four of the convicts.1