7 Sonali Bk officials show up at ACC

Dhaka, Sep 17 Seven Sonali Bank officials appeared at the Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday morning as the anti-graft body called them for questioning over the Hallmark loan scam. 
The officials are bank's general managers at headquarters Md Mustafizur Rahman and Ali Hossain Khan, Deputy General Manager Md Ezaz Ahmed, senior executive officers Sohrab Hossain and Md Mokhlesur Rahman, Senior Officer Jesmin Nahar and Junior Officer Md Zillur Rahman. 
ACC's Public Relations Officer Pranab Bhattacharya said the six-strong probe body headed by Deputy Director Joynul Abedin Shibli began quizzing the officers around 11:30am. 
The questioning comes in the wake of the revelation made by a Bangladesh Bank survey that over Tk 36 billion was swindled from the Ruposhi Bangla Hotel Branch of the Sonali Bank. 
Of the amount, the Hallmark Group misappropriated over Tk 26 billion in collaboration with some officials of the bank, the central bank survey said. 
Later, the bank suspended 20 officials over the scam while two other deputy managing directors were made Officers on Special Duty. 
On Sunday, one of the six other officials of the bank were quizzed by the ACC, bank's International Trade and Commerce General Manager ANM Masroor-ul-Huda Seraji said. 
He was transferred immediately after he constituted an audit team, a day before it began its probe leading to the revelation.