Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN) – Three senior officials of the state- owned Sonali Bank Limited were arrested Sunday evening from the city’s Ramna area in connection with the Hall-Mark loan scandal.
They are suspended general manager Mir Mohidur Rahman, suspended deputy general managers Sheikh Altaf Hossain and Shafiq Uddin Ahmed.
“We’ve arrested them from Ramna area around 5.45pm,” Senior Deputy Director and head of six-member investigation team Mir Joynul Abedin Shebly of the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) said, adding that with them, seven people including four bank officials have so far been arrested regarding the scandal.
ACC, earlier, arrested Hall-Mark Group Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud and Chairman Jasmine Islam, also his wife, its General Manager (commercial) Tushar Ahmed and suspended DGM of Sonali Bank AKM Azizur Rahman.
On October 4, the anti-graft watchdog filed 11 cases against 27 people including 20 Sonali Bank officials on charges of money laundering, forgery and misappropriation of money.
According to the ACC findings, Sonali Bank’s Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch disbursed over BDT 15.6849 billion in loan to Hall-Mark between October 2011 and May this year.
BBN/SSR/AD-23Dec12-9:25 pm (BST)
