ACC quizzes five more AB Bank officials

The Anti-Corruption Co-mmission (ACC) interrogated five more AB Bank officials on Tuesday on money laundering allegation, reports UNB.

ACC Assistant Director Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said that ACC interrogated them as per fixed schedule.

On December 26, a notice issued by ACC summoned the five officials-Mohammad Mahfuz Ul Islam, head of corporate treasury, Mohammad Lokman, head of Offshore Banking Unit, Arif Neaz, OBU at EPZ branch, Mahadeb Sarkar Sumon, company secretary, and MN Azim, who works in financial institutions and treasury section.

ACC director Syed Iqbal Hossain and assistant director Gulshan Anwar are investigating the allegation and doing the interrogations.

ACC also summoned on Monday six more members of the AB Bank's Board of Directors for interrogation on January 7. The directors of AB Bank are Shishir Ranjan Bose, Mejbahul Haque, Fahimul Haque, Syed Afzal Hasan Uddin, Runa Zakia and Md Anwar Jamil Siddiqui while one of the clients of bank trader Saiful Haque is also summoned for questioning on January 04.