ACC to sue 21, including Sonali Bank ex-MD

The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved a case against 21 people including Tahmilur Rahman, a former managing director of Sonali Bank, on charges of embezzling Tk 32.68 crore from the state-run bank in name of issuing a loan.

The anti-graft body approved the case in a meeting held at its headquarters in the capital, said ACC spokesperson M Arif Sadiq.

Six members on the board of directors of ‘One Spinning mills Limited’ including BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman’s friend businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun and 15 officials of the Sonali Bank are made accused in the case.

One Spinning Mills Ltd Chairman Md Harun ur Rashid, Managing Director Giasuddin Al Mamun, and directors GR Chowdhury, Nasir Uddin Mia, AHM Jahangir and Rajib Siraj are among the accused. Sonali Bank officials including former managing director Muhammad Tahmilur Rahman, former deputy managing director Md Amanullah, retired general managers Mizanur Rahman and Shafiqur Rahman, deputy assistant manager Shah Alam, former deputy general managers Khandaker Mosharraf Ali, Md Kamrul Islam and Abu Jafar Md Saleh, former assistant general managers Ali Arshad, Abdul Gafur Bhuyain and Md Abu Musa, former senior principal officers Atiqur Rahman, Wahid Uddin Ahmed and SMM Awlad Hossain and former principal officer Abdur Razzak are also made accused.

ACC officials said the loan was issued for ‘One Spinning Mills Limited’ from the local branch of Sonali Bank in 2004 against a Letter of Credit (LC).

The accused in collaboration with each other took the loan from the bank and embezzled the money, said the officials adding that during the inquiry, the commission did not find any mortgage against the loan.