ACC quizzes six Sonali Bank officials

Staff Reporter :The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday interrogated six officers of the state owned Sonali Bank (SB) Limited in connection with misappropriation of Tk 7,000 crore from a good number of branches of the bank through forgery.A five-member team led by ACC Senior Deputy Director Mir Mohammad Joynal Abedin Shibli questioned them in the Commission head quarters at Segunbagicha, Dhaka.SB’s Local Office General Manager M A Baten, Deputy Manager Hossain Ara Begum, AssistantGeneral Manager Mohammad Amir Uddin, Senior Principal Officer Shakhawat Hossain Khan, Senior Officers Mohammad Manjurul Islam and Mohammad Nazmul Alam were questioned.Tk 3,500 crore was plundered from Hotel Ruposhi Bangla branch, Tk three crore from Foreign Commercial Corporate branch, Tk 281 crore from Gulshan branch, Tk 250 crore from Bangabandhu Avenue Corporate branch, Tk 141 crore, from Agargaon branch, Tk 600 crore from Local Office, Tk 400 crore from Chittagong Agrabad Corporate branch and Tk 300 crore from Laldighi Corporate branch and Narayanganj Corporate branch and Tk 1,528 crore from several other branches.The SB’s internal audit teams examined the branches’ books and ledgers and computer disks, and foreign exchange transactions.