The Anti-Corruption Commission questioned four officials of the state-owned Sonali Bank yesterday in connection with a loan scam worth nearly Tk7,000 crore through fake Letter of Credit (LC) accounts and forgery.
A team headed by ACC Senior Deputy Director Mir Jainul Abedin Shibly interrogated the officials – Deputy General Manager Azadul Haque, Senior Executive Officer Monjur Rahman, Executive Officer Biplob Bhusan Boxi and Anisuzzaman – at the ACC headquarters in the capital, an ACC official said.
The anti-graft body took their statements as witnesses in the case.
The alleged embezzlement took place in nine branches of the corruption-ridden bank: Hotel Ruposhi Bangla branch, Motijheel foreign export corporate branch, Gulshan branch, Bangabandhu Avenue corporate branch, Agargaon branch, Local Office, Chittagong’s Agrabad corporate branch and Laldighi corporate branch, and Narayanganj corporate branch.
The scam was revealed through different internal inspections and investigations conducted between 2010 and 2013, the official said.
