Staff Reporter :Five senior officials, including the Deputy Managing Director, of One Bank were quizzed by Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday for their involvement in the case of 300 crore taka loan embezzlement by Ananda Shipyard , a manufacturer and exporter of ships.The officials queried were : DMD of One Bank, Johora Bibi, Senior Vice- President and Head of Marketing (at present additional Deputy Managing Director), Rozina Alia Ahmed, Vice – President (Marketing), Md. Abu Saleh, Senior Vice President,Md. Aftab uddin Khan and Principal Officer, Jamil Hossain.At ACC head office, a team led by Deputy Director Mir Md. Joynal Abedin of ACC grilled them for about two long hours. Pronob Kumar Bhattacharya,Deputy Director (Public Relations) of ACC, confirmed the matter.He said, there is anallegation against Ananda Shipyard that they had embezzled 114 crore and 21 lakh taka from Motijheel Branch of One Bank in the name of taking loan . It is a portion of total 1300 crore taka loan embezzlement by Ananda Shipyard. Six more officials of the same bank will be interrogated by ACC. Notice has been served on Mujtoba M. Kazmi, In-charge, Motijheel Branch of the bank, Principal Officer, Khaled Al Fesani, Senior VP of Corporate Head Quarters, Engineer Asif Mahmud Khan, Senior Principal Officer, Mahmud Hasan, Principal Officer, Md. Anisuzzaman and Officer (Marketing), Abu Shahadat Md. Shahed, asking them to be present today (Tuesday). ACC sources have revealed that according to the graft allegation, Ananda Shipyard took loans of Tk 1,300 crore from 12 commercial banks (including One Bank) and financial institutions showing fake documents in the name of exporting ships. The banks disbursed the loans violating banking rules when Ananda Shipyard had no experience of building ships. All these falsifications and irregularities were revealed by a special inspection conducted by Bangladesh Bank.
