ACC quizzes top bosses of two banks

The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) Wednesday quizzed Managing Directors (MDs) of two commercial banks over their alleged involvement in Bismillah Group loan scam.

The five-member probe team of the ACC quizzed them from 2.30pm to 4.00pm at the commission's head office in the city, the anti-graft watchdog officials told journalists.

They were MD of Mercantile Bank Limited M Ehsanul Haque and MD of Bank Asia Limited Md Mehmood Husain.

According to a Bangladesh Bank report, the Bismillah Group swindled about Tk 11 billion from state-owned Janata Bank and four private commercial banks.

According to the ACC sources, the Group swindled about Tk 3.92 billion from Janata Bank, Tk 3.06 billion from Prime Bank, Tk 1.64 billion from Jamuna Bank, Tk 1.469 billion from Shahjalal Islami Bank and Tk 0.63 billion from Premier Bank.

Meanwhile, the ACC Wednesday also interrogated an official of Maxim Group, a multilevel marketing company, in connection with the alleged swindling of about Tk 15 billion of the investors' money.  

The commission deputy director Nur Hossain Khan interrogated Azizur Rahman at the ACC head office in the capital, officials said.

In July 2013, the commission launched a probe into the allegation of swindling about Tk 15 billion of the investors' money by Maxim Group.