Court Correspondent :
Sonali Bank Limited yesterday (Tuesday) filed a new case with the First Joint District Judge Court of Dhaka against 33 people over Hall-Mark Group’s Tk 7-billion loan scam.
The manager of the bank’s Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch, Md Abul Hossain, filed the case against the accused.
Plaintiff’s lawyer Hosne Ara Begum told newsmen that Hall-Mark Group’s
MD Tanvir Mahmud and the Group’s Chairman Jesmin Islam were made accused in the case.
Judge Dr Md Fazle Elahi Bhuiyan has asked the accused to appear on August 28.
The complainant’s lawyer also said, “Apart from the fresh case, 15 money loan cases were earlier filed against the Group.”
The other defendants in the case are Mir Zakaria, owner of the Hall-Mark Group’s paper company Max Spinning Mill, Hall-Mark Fashions Limited MD Tanvir Mahmud, Chairman Jesmin Islam, Sonali Bank’s former Deputy General Manager AKM Azizur Rahman (temporarily suspended) and former Assistant General Manager of the bank Md Saiful Hassan suspended.
