The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday in a notice asked Janata Bank managing director to submit the loan related documents of the Bismillah Towels Group, ACC officials told reporters.
The Bismillah Group allegedly swindled Tk 392.57 crore from Janata Bank; Tk 306.22 crore from Prime Bank; Tk 163.69 crore from Jamuna Bank; Tk 148.69 crore from Shahjalal Bank; and Tk 62.97 from Premier Bank, ACC officials said.
In separate summons the ACC asked two officials of Shahjalal Islami Bank to appear at its head office on April 17 to face interrogation in connection with the alleged swindling of about Tk 1,100 crore from the banks by Bismillah Group.
ACC said that it summoned Shahjalal Islami Bank’s Eskaton branch manager Nakibul Islam and its executive officer Sabina Yeasmin.
The ACC would today send notices summoning seven more officials of Janata Bank to appear at its head office on April 18 to face interrogation over the same allegation, they said.
The ACC would, they said, summon Janata Bank head office’s first general managers Sirazul Islam and Ghulam Mustafa, assistant general managers Abdur Razzak, Laisur Rahman Mia and M Asaduzzman, senior executive officer Ahmed Helal Uddin, and executive officer Baharul Islam on April 18 for interrogation.
The bank officials sanctioned the credit to the Bismillah Group, said ACC officials.
Earlier, an ACC probe team had interrogated 16 Janata Bank officials in this connection, they said.
According to a Bangladesh Bank investigation report, Bismillah Group swindled about Tk 1,100 crore from state-owned Janata Bank and four private commercial banks -- Prime Bank, Shahjalal Bank, Jamuna Bank and Premier Bank.
The BB report said that the Bimillah Group took government’s cash incentives by showing fake export documents saying it would open business firms abroad. (Source)
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