The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has interrogated four officials of Bangladesh Bank (BB) over financial scams involving former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashant Kumar Halder alias PK Halder.
An investigating team, led by ACC Deputy Director and Investigation Officer Gulshan Anwar, conducted the interrogation at its head office on Monday morning.
The four central bank officials are joint directors Md Ferdous Kabir and ABM Mobarak Hossain, Deputy Director Md Hamidul Alam and Assistant Director Md Kader.
On January 19, the ACC summoned the BB officials through letters.
The questioning went on for four hours, during when they denied embezzling the money and sending it to PK Halder.
During the interrogation, the commission asked the officials about the weaknesses in the monitoring process by the Bangladesh Bank.
According to the ACC, PK Halder has swindled at least Tk11,000 crore from various organizations.
PK Halder has embezzled around Tk3,500 crore from ILFSL, Tk2,200 crore from FAS Finance, Tk2,500 crore from Reliance Finance and Tk3,000 crore from People's Leasing. There is almost no mortgage against all these loans, so the chances of recovering the loans are slim, said the ACC.
So far, 22 cases have been filed over the scam.
