ACC files case against six Sonali Bank officials

The Anti Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against seven people, including six Sonali Bank officials and a businessman, for their alleged involvement in embezzling roughly Tk10m from the Gulshan branch of the bank.   The commission's Deputy Assistant Director M Wahiduzzaman filed the case with the Gulshan police station against former Gulshan branch manager M Akhtaruzzman who is now temporarily suspended, Principal Officer Santosh Chandra Sen, Executive Officer Abul Hasem, Senior Officer AHM Khairuzzaman, Assistant Officer M Sahidul Islam, and Principal Office Assistant General Manager Gopal Chandra Das, ACC sources said.   An entrepreneur named Masudur Rahman Mazed, proprietor of Fahim Attire Limited, was also accused in the case.   According to the first information report, the accused people, in cooperation with each other, misused their power and allocated loans to Fahim Attire Limited, showing forged land deeds as mortgage on behalf of the company. They also made a false inspection report to do the forgery. From 2008 to 2011, the accused people collected the money from the bank.   ACC sources said the accused had swindled a total of Tk20.3m from the bank, but later returned Tk10.3m.