Staff Reporter :
The authorities of Sonali Bank have filed three separate cases against Hall-Mark Group’s chairman and managing director respectively with Artha Rin Adalat in a bid to recover Tk 2,554 crore that the errant business group embezzled from the bank.
Sonali bank has so far recovered around Tk 500 crore out of Tk 2,554 crore.
Executive officer Md Abdus Salam filed the cases with Dhaka’s first Artha Rin Adalat (money-loan court) on behalf of Sonali Bank on Thursday afternoon.
“Sonali Bank will file a total of 21 cases against Jasmin and Tanvir as they had defaulted approximately Tk 62 crore loans,” Abdus Salam told The New Nation yesterday.
Earlier on March 25, Jasmin and Tanvir were sued in six other cases as being the authorities of Hall-Mark Style Limited, Hall-Mark Packaging Limited, Hall-Mark Accessories Limited, Hall-Mark Denim Composite Limited, Hall-Mark Knitting and dyeing Limited and Zisan Composite Limited.
Recently, the board of Sonali Bank in a meeting decided to file a number of cases
against the companies concerned of Hallmark Group to recover the bank’s money swindled by the business group with the help of some officials of the bank.
Tanvir and other Hallmark officials along with a number of high officials of Sonali Bank have already faced 11 criminal cases by the Anti-Corruption Commission for embezzlement of the money.
An investigation by Bangladesh Bank revealed that the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch of Sonali Bank had lent Hall-Mark Group and five other companies Tk 3,606.48 crore in between 2010 and May 2012 on the basis of fake documents.
