ACC to sue 7 Prime Bank, Sonali Bank officials soon

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Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is set to sue seven officials of the Prime Bank (PB) and the state owned Sonali Bank (SB) shortly as they allegedly plundered Tk 90 lakh of the SB through forgery.
The Commission Public Relation Officer (PRO) Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said that its top officers on Sunday approved of suing them in a graft case under ACC Act-1947, Section-5 (2) and 2012, Section-4.
The case might be registered in the current week, he added.
Of the accused, five are of Prime Bank. They are as PB’s Motijheel branch Sales Executive Mirza Kamrul Hasan, Senior Executive Officer Ferdous Akhter Dipu, Senior Vice-President and Manager (Operation) Mohiuddin Ahmed, Executive Officer H M Kamruzzaman Sumon and Senior Assistant Vice-President and IBB branch Manager (Operation) Jafar Hasan.
Sonali Bank’s Local Office branch, Motijheel, Senior Officer Anisur Rahman Sarker and Officer Liyakat Hossain Chowdhury are the accused.
According to the primary inquiry report, which was submitted to the Commission and recommended of the case recently, the alleged accused in collaboration with one another transferred Tk 90 lakh from an account in the SB’s local office of Belhasa Acom and Associates Ltd into M/s Kalam Enterprise, a fake organisation, and shared those among themselves.
The Commission top officers by scrutinising the primary probe report of its Deputy Director and Investigation Officer (IO) Sahin Ara Momtaz gave the approval.
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