The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday questioned six officials of state-owned Sonali Bank in an inquiry into a loan scam of nearly Tk7,000 crore through opening fake letter of Credit (LC) accounts and forgery.
A team, headed by ACC Senior Deputy Director Mir Jainul Abedin Shibly, interrogated the officials at the ACC headquarter in the capital.
The bank officials are- M A Baten, general manager for local office foreign exchange department (export), Hosne Ara Begum, deputy general manager, M Amir Uddin, assistant general manager, Sakhawat Hossain Khan, senior principal officer, M Manjurul Islam, senior officer, and M Nazmul Alam, senior officer.
The alleged embezzlement took place in nine branches of the scam hit bank. The branches are – Hotel Ruposhi Bangla Branch, Motijheel foreign export corporate branch, Gulshan branch, Bangabandhu Avenue corporate branch, Agargaon branch, Local Office, Chittaong’s Agrabad Corporate Branch and Laldighi Corporate Branch, and Narayanganj Corporate Branch.
The alleged embezzlement was unveiled through different internal inspection and investigation reports, conducted between 2010 and 2013.
