The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday took statements from nine Sonali Bank Limited officials, the witnesses in the Tk372crore loan embezzlement case of the Hall-Mark Group.
According to officials, a seven-member probe team, led by ACC Deputy Director Mir Joynul Abdin Shibly, inquired the witnesses at the commission headquarters in the capital.
The Sonali Bank officials included assistant general managers Abul Basher and M Mukhlesur Rahman, senior executive officers M Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, M Azizul Haque Chowdhury, AKM Mansur Rahman Mallik and M Sohrab Hossain, executive officer M Asaduzaman, Hania Ahmed, and senior officer (IT) M Shafiqul Islam.
The commission had earlier taken statements from six accused Sonali Bank officials and seven central bank officials as witnesses in the case.
Violating the central bank’s rules, officials from Sonali Bank and five business entities of Hall-Mark Group embezzled Tk372crore, which was taken in the form of loans, between October 2011 and May 2012 from the bank’s Ruposhi Bangla branch.
The five companies are T & Brothers Ltd, Paragon Knit Composite Ltd, Nakshi Knit Composite Ltd, Khan Jahan Ali Sweaters Ltd and DN Sports Ltd.
The ACC in January this year filed as many as 26 cases against 18 senior executives of the five companies and 17 officials of Sonali Bank for their alleged involvement in misappropriating the state-owned bank’s money.
