The Anti-Corruption Commission next week will send notices to nine former directors of Sonali Bank, including its former chairman Kazi Baharul Islam, seeking their wealth statements, commission officials told New Age on Friday.
They said the commission took the decision on Thursday in line with a requirement of the ACC team investigating the Hallmark-Sonali scam.
The eight other former directors of the country’s largest sate-owned commercial bank, who reportedly were appointees of the ruling Awami League, are Anwar Shahid, KM Zaman Romel, Kasem Humayun, Shaimum Sarwar Kamal, and Sattayendra Chandra Bhakta.
The probe team has already interrogated all Sonali Bank directors about their alleged involvement in the embezzlement of about Tk 3,700 crore by the Hallmark Group and five other business firms from the bank’s Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch.
The investigators, however, have failed to establish a direct link between them and the embezzlement, the officials said.
After filing cases against Hallmark and Sonali Bank officials, the probe team decided to scrutinise wealth statements of the bank directors, they said.
The team has already started launched an inquiry into suspected involvement of former director and present managing director of the bank Pradip Kumar Dutta and former director Jannat Ara Henry in the outrageous fraud.
The commission on October 4 filed 11 cases against seven Hallmark Group officials, including managing director Tanvir Mahmud, and 20 Sonali Bank officials, including former managing director Humayun Kabir, on charge of their involvement in misappropriating of the Tk 1,568.39 crore-plus funded part of the total embezzled amount of around Tk 2,686 crore.
The ACC on January 1 filed 26 more cases against 18 senior executives of the five other business concerns involved in the fraud and 17 Sonali Bank officials on charge of their involvement in embezzling Tk 350.38 crore. (Source)
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