ACC grills two top former AB Bank officials

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday interrogated former AB Bank managing director Shamim Ahmed Chowdhury and former head of financial institute and treasury Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal over alleged money laundering from the bank.

ACC director Syed Iqbal Hossain and assistant director Gulshan Anwar Pradhan quizzed them from 9:30 am till 5:00 pm at the ACC headquarters in the city, said ACC public relations official Pranab Kumar Bhattacharjee.

Earlier on Thursday last, the anti-graft body grilled the bank's former chairman M Wahidul Haque and former managing director M Fazlar Rahman over the alleged money laundering of Tk 1.65 billion to Singapore through opening an offshore company.

Mr Haque, along with the bank's vice chairman and a director, resigned from the bank's board of directors on December 21 amid the allegation.

The commission has also summoned five other executives of the bank on Tuesday next to interrogate them about the incident.

The executives are head of corporate affairs Mahfuz Ul Islam, head of offshore banking unit (OBU) Md Lokman and another OBU official Arif Newaz, bank company secretary Mahdeb Sarker, and AB Bank head office official MN Azim.

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