It quizzes 4 Jamuna bank officials today
The Commission on Sunday served notices to the bank officials asking them to be present at the ACC head office on May 26 to face grilling, ACC Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.
The bank officials who will face interrogation are former managing director Ehsanul Haque, former deputy managing directors Nasir Uddin Ahmed, Mahbubur Rahman and Mahbubul Alam and Reazul Karim, and former senior vice president Mahmud Hossain and then senior executive vice president Golam Rabbani.
The graft watchdog today (Sunday) questioned four officials of Jamuna Bank in connection with the loan scam.
An ACC inquiry team quizzed senior executive vice president (SEVP – monitoring and vigilance division) AKM Badiuzzman, executive vice president Muklesur Rahman, SEVP (credit division) Habibur Rahman and senior assistant vice president Mozaharul Haque.
On February 26, the anti-graft body formed a five-member inquiry team to probe the alleged plundering of about Tk 1,100 crore from five banks.
According to a Bangladesh Bank report, Bismillah Group swindled about Tk 1,100 crore from state-run Janata Bank and four private commercial banks — Prime Bank, Shahjalal Bank, Jamuna Bank and Premier Bank -– showing fake export documents, taking government’s cash incentive to open business firms abroad and with accommodated bills through Letters of Credit (LCs).
The business group swindled Tk 392.57 crore from Janata Bank, Tk 306.22 crore from Prime Bank, Tk 163.69 crore from Jamuna Bank, Tk 148.69 crore from Shahjalal Bank and Tk 62.97 from Premier Bank.
