Staff Reporter :
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday interrogated managing directors (MDs) of the Bank Asia and the Mercantile Bank Ltd on charge of involvement in the Bismillah Group loan scam, ACC sources said.
Bismillah Group plundered about Tk 1,175 crore from five banks in collaboration with some officials of the banks.
ACC Assistant Director Mahbubul Alam grilled Bank Asia’s MD Mohammad Mehmud Hossain and Mercantile Bank’s MD Ehsanul Haque in the Commission’s head office between 2:30pm and 4:00pm.
ACC also questioned them with BRAC Bank’s MD Syed Mahbubur Rahman. But they were not included in the cases filed by the commission.
On November 3, 2013, ACC filed 12 cases against 13 people of the Bismillah Group and 40 officials of different banks after a five-member probe team of the commission submitted its report.
Deputy Director of ACC Syed Iqbal Hossain, Assistant Directors Tawfiqul Islam and Gulshan Anwar Pradhan and Deputy Assistant Directors Sarder Masur Ahmed and Al Amin are the members of the team.
