The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has summoned former Farmers Bank managing director, AKM Shamim, as part of its investigation into the deposit of Tk4 crore in the bank account of former chief justic SK Sinha.
In a notice served on Tuesday, the ACC also ordered five other officials of the bank to present themselves before the commission on Wednesday at 10am.
The others are, the bank’s former manager operations and vice president, Lutful Haque, First Vice president Sapon Kumar Roy, Senior Executive Vice President Gazi Salauddin, Assistant Vice President Shafiuddin Askari Ahmed, and executive officer, Umme Salma Sultana.
The notice said the accused might be involved in forgery and deception by taking Tk4 crore in loans from Farmers Bank Ltd using fake documents and depositing the money in the bank account of a VVIP, who r turned out to be former chief justice Sinha.
Businessmen Shahjahan and Niranjan Chandra Saha deposited the money. Their lawyers claimed the money was paid to Sinha after he sold his house.
The lawyers said Sinha sold his six-storey Uttara building to Tangail resident Shanti Roy in 2016. Shanti paid Tk2 crore and asked her uncle Niranjan, and her husband's friend Shahjahan, to pay the rest of the money. Niranjan and Shahjahan then took loans of Tk2 crore each from the Gulshan branch of Farmers Bank.
Both the businessmen were accused of taking loans from the bank using fake documents and depositing the money in the bank account of a VVIP – without mentioning any specific name.
ACC interrogated the two earlier this year.
