Seven former officials of Oriental Bank have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in a loan scam case.
Judge Hosne Ara Begum of the Dhaka's Special Judge's Court 2 gave the verdict on Monday afternoon.
The court also fined them Tk1.90 crore.
The convicts are the bank's former senior vice-president Shah Md Harun, former senior assistant vice-president Abul Kashem Mahmud Ullah, former vice-presidents Md Fozlur Rahman and Tarikul Alam, former senior executive vice-president Mahmud Hossain, former executive vice-president Kamrul Islam and former deputy general manager Emanul Hoque. All of the convicts are at large.
According to the case statement, the seven officials disbursed a Tk1 crore loan in favour of a fake company named Messrs Tanvil Agency.
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed the case against them on December 29, 2006.
