Sonali Bank officials among 3 sued for graft

Dhaka: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against three people, including two officials of Sonali Bank, for allegedly swindling out over Tk 4 crore from the bank.
ACC deputy director Mir Zainul Abedin Shebly filed the case against them with city’s Motijheel police, said ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya.
The case was filed against managing director of M/s Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited (Narayanganj) Ayesha Afroz, executive officer of Sonali Bank Mosharraf Hossain and executive officer and manager of Debidwar branch of the bank Zakir Hossain.
According to the first information report (FIR), exporters are given cash incentives if they can bring back home the total prices of the exported products.
Though M/s Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited could not bring back 10 percent of total price of the products it exported, its Managing Director Ayesha Afroz applied to Sonali Bank to get a discount certificate. Despite its failure to fulfill the bank condition, the two officials of Sonali Bank’s local branch jointly issued a discount certificate to Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited.
Showing the discount certificate, Oli Knitting Fabrics Limited withdrew about Tk 4.14 crore from Sonali Bank local branch as cash incentives and all the accused in collusion with each other swindled the amount.
The case was filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947.