ACC to grill 11 One Bank officials

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UNB, Dhaka :
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate 11 officials of One Bank Limited in connection with the allegation of embezzlement of nearly Tk 1,300 crore by Ananda Shipyard.
An ACC team, led by its deputy director and inquiry officer Zainul Abedin Shebly, will question the One Bank officials on February 2-3 next at the Commission’s head office, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
On February 2, the One Bank officials who will be grilled deputy managing director Johura Bibi, vice president M Abu Saleah, senior executive vice president Rosina Aleya Ahmed, senior executive vice president Altaf Uddin Khan and principal office Zamil Hossain.
Officer-in-charge of Motijheel Branch Mujtaba M Kajmi, principal officer Khaled Al Fesani, senior vice president Asif Mahmud Khan, senior principal officer Engr Mahbub Hasan, principal officer M Anisuzzaman and officer Abu Shadat M Shahed will be interrogated on February 3.
In April 2014, the ACC initiated a probe into the allegation of swindling of about Tk 1,300 crore from 14 commercial banks and financial institutions by Ananda Shipyard, a manufacturer and exporter of ships.
According to the graft allegation, Ananda Shipyard took loans of Tk 1,300 crore from 14 commercial banks and financial institutions showing fake documents. The banks disbursed the loans violating banking rules when Ananda Shipyard had no experience of building ships.
The Bangladesh Bank in its inspections also found such irregularities in disbursal of loans by the banks and financial institutions.
According to the central bank report, Ananda Shipyard took loans of Tk 456.34 crore from IBBL while about Tk 187 crore from Arab-Bangladesh Bank Limited, Tk 221.2 crore from Mercantile Bank, Tk 114.21 crore from One Bank, Tk 238 crore from Janata Bank, Tk 24 crore from Bangladesh Development Bank and Tk 15.14 crore from NCC Bank.
Ananda Shipyard also took loans of Tk 1.93 crore from Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFCL), Tk 23.18 crore from Finix Finance and Development Limited, Tk 11.75 crore from Fareast Finance and Development Limited, Tk 3.72 crore from IDLC, Tk 2.92 crore from Housing Finance and Investment Limited, Tk 3.92 crore from Haj Finance Company Limited, and Tk 3 crore from Premier Leasing & Finance Limited.
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