A Dhaka Court has sentenced six former Oriental Bank officials to seven years in jail while a businessman to 10 years imprisonment for loan forgery.
Judge Md Aminul Islam of Dhaka Special Judge Court passed the order on Tuesday afternoon in a case filed with ACC for taking loans after opening a fake account.
The court also fined Tk14 lakh to each of the accused.
The accused are Shah Mohammad Harun, former senior vice-president; Abul Kashem Mahmud Ulllah, former senior assistant vice-president; Md Fazlur Rahman, former assistant vice-president; Mahmud Hossain, former assistant vice-president; Kamrul Hossain, former vice-president; Imamul Haque, deputy managing director of Oriental Bank principal branch and Md Bokor Hossain, proprietor of Bokor Hossain Ltd. They all are absconding.
On December 29, 2006, ACC Deputy Director SM Aktar Hamid Bhuiyan filed the cage against them as they took Tk1 crore loan, using a fake account.
Later, the investigation officer of the case submitted the charge sheet on June 6, 2013.