The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday interrogated six officials of Agrani Bank for alleged involvement in illegal loan disbursements to six companies.
On Monday, the commission questioned seven other officials of the state-owned bank about their involvement in the loan scams.
Deputy Director M Nasir Uddin, who heads the two-member committee formed in April to investigate the matter, met with the six men at ACC headquarters, said an official.
ASM Waliullah, M Bazlur Rahman, M Fakhruddin Siddique, Amirul islam, Zahur Lal Roy and Nazrul Islam are deputy general managers based at the bank’s head office. They are suspected by the ACC of disbursing loans illegally to six companies, namely Roko Enterprise Ltd, Julias Sweater Ltd, MR Sweater Ltd, Fazlur Rahman and Company, Bikrampur Traders and Ark International.
In a different case, two suspended police officers of the detective branch (DB) were questioned on Tuesday for allegedly involvement in extorting Tk10m from a businessman, said an official.
Sub-inspector Abul Hasnat and Inspector Azhar Uddin were questioned at the headquarters by the commission’s Deputy Director Nasim Anwar, who heads an investigative team formed in July to look into the allegations.
Sources said on April 7 the police officers were instructed by Deputy Commissioner (DC) Mollah Nazrul Islam to bring in Syed Abidul Islam, a businessman from Gulshan. Together they are accused of extorting Tk10m from Islam by threatening to kill him in police “crossfire”.
On Monday, the commission interrogated former DC Mollah Nazrul Islam, while ruling party MPs Kabirul Haque and Abidul Islam were also questioned in this connection on September 3 by the ACC, after.
Nazrul Islam was transferred to the Protection and Protocol Division of the DMP and the two police officers suspended earlier.
