Md Mahabub Alam :
The team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) inspecting Sonali Bank, Hall-Mark Group and five other business entities loan scam for Tk 373 crore is likely to submit its final investigation report to the commission next week, sources said.
The team led by ACC Senior Deputy Director Mir Mohammad Joynal Abedin Shibli filed 27 cases against 35 executives of the companies and officials of the bank in this regard on January 1, 2013. The five business houses are T & Brothers, DN Sports, Paragon Knit Composite Limited, Nakshi Knit Composite Limited and Khan Jahan Ali Sweaters Limited.
Earlier Joynal Abedin Shibli said, we submitted charge sheet to the court against the alleged accused in 11 cases on Hall-Mark Group loan scam of Tk 1,568 crore.
Now, we are going to submit our final investigation report to the commission against Hall-Mark, the business bodies and bankers next week, he said.
All the proceedings have been made final by this time, a member of the investigation team asking not to be named told The New Nation.
In response to a question, he said, the number of the accused and the amount of money may be increased in the final report.
Another investigation into the irregularities amounting to Tk 1, 709.80 crore (Non-Funded) is going on. “The ACC body is scrutinizing wealth statements of 32 people of the group and the bank”. The executives of the companies in collaboration with the officials embezzled the money from the bank through different ways such as back-to-back, payment against document, pre-shipment credit, inland bill purchase and foreign bill purchase.
Apart form Joynal Abedin Shibli, ACC Deputy Director Akhter Hamid Bhuyian, Assistant Directors M Nazmus Sadat and Moshiur Rahman, Deputy Assistant Directors Mojibur Rahman, Mohammad Joynal Abedin and Selina Akhker are members of the team.
On October 4, 2012, ACC field 11 cases against 27 people of Sonali Bank and Hall-Mark on charge of embezzlement of Tk 1,568 crore (funded), which charge sheet was submitted to the court. The executives and the officials of the bank, the group and the five business houses are reckoned to have been plundered over Tk 3,800 crore from Sonali Bank’s Ruposhi Bangla Branch, which are being enquired in different phases. ACC body is going to submit its final report after a yearlong investigation.
