Dhaka: The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) has arrested a suspended Sonali Bank official and a former upazila council chairman from Matlab of Chandpur district in two graft cases.

The arrestees are M Kamrul Hossain Khan, 55, assistant general manager (suspended) of Dilkusha corporate branch of Sonali Bank Limited, and Mir M Tofazzal Hossain, former chairman of Bhaluka upazila council in Mymensingh.

An ACC team launched a drive at the house of Kamrul Hossain at Ghoradhari village in Matlab upazila (south) of Chandpur district on Tuesday morning and arrested him, ACC’s Public Relations Officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told UNB.

Kamrul Hossain Khan was an accused in 19 cases filed by the ACC with the Ramna Police Station in 2012 on charges of swindling huge amount of money from the Ruposhi Bangla branch of the state-owned bank, showing fake documents.

The ACC team also arrested Tofazzal from Matlab of Chandpur on the same day in a case filed for acquiring wealth worth Tk 3,274,103 illegally.