The Anti-Corruption Commission is set to quiz top nine officials of the Sonali Bank Limited for their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of over Tk3.72bn in funded loan by five business entities of Hall-Mark Group, an ACC official said.
The accused officials were Sonali Bank’s then general managers Noni Gopal Nath, Sabita Siraj (PRL) and ANM Masrurul Huda Siraji, deputy general manager Kaniz Fatema Chowdhury, assistant general managers Ashraf Ali Patwary, M Kamrul Hossain Khan and M Saiful Hasan, M Khurshid Alam and executive officer Mohammad Abdul Matin.
The commission yesterday served notices asking all of them to appear before the commission on December 8 for quizzing, the source said.
Violating the bank’s rules, officials from the Sonali Bank and five business entities of Hall-Mark Group embezzled the money during October 2011 and May 2012 from the Ruposhi Bangla branch of the bank.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Bank joint directors Monir Ahammad Shikder and M Siddiqur Rahman Molla, deputy directors M Anwar Hossain, M Rezaul Islam, M Hasan Askari Bhuiyan and Kazi Arifur Rahman, Assistant Director Muhammad Abdullah Al Mamun were requested to appear as witnesses at the ACC headquarters on December 4.
The ACC also asked top bosses of five business entities of Hall-Mark Group to appear before the commission on December 2 to give statements.
The ACC filed 26 cases on January 1 against 17 Sonali Bank officials and 18 Hall-Mark officials on charge of swindling over Tk3.5bn from the Sonali Bank.
