Charge sheets against 12 including 11 SBL officials submitted

The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) submitted Thursday charge sheets in 14 cases to the court against 12 persons, including 11 officials of Sonali Bank Limited (SBL), for their alleged swindling of Tk 3.41 billion from the bank.
ACC Deputy Director Mir Zainul Abedin Shibly submitted the charge sheets on behalf of the commission, officials told the reporters.
On June 1, the ACC approved the charge sheets against Managing Director of TN Brothers, one of the entities of Hall-Mark Group, Taslim Hasan and 11 former senior officials of Sonali Bank, including General Managers Noni Gopal Nath and Mir Mohidur Rahman, Deputy General Manager AKM Azizur Rahman, Assistant General Manger Saiful Hasan and Executive Officer Abdul Matin.
Earlier on May 6, the anti-graft watchdog approved charge sheets in another 10 cases against 21 people, including 10 officials of Sonali Bank, for allegedly swindling nearly Tk 190 million out of the state-owned bank.
On January 1, 2013, the ACC filed 26 cases against 35 officials of Sonali Bank and five other companies, including former managing director of the bank Humayun Kabir and Managing Director of Hall-Mark Group Tanvir Mahmud for misappropriating more than Tk 3.50 billion funded from the Ruposhi Bangla branch of the bank.
ACC Deputy Director Mr Shibly and Assistant Directors Moshiur Rahman and M Nazmus Saadat conducted investigations into the 14 cases.
Meanwhile, the ACC filed Thursday a case against four officials of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies and Firms over alleged swindling of Tk 25 million.
Deputy Director of the commission Mohammad Abdus Sobhan filed the case with Tejgaon Police Station in the city, ACC officials said.
The accused officials were Assistant Registrars Abdur Razzak Hawladar and Ranjit Kumar Roy, Examiner and Accountant Harun-Or-Rashid and Reza bin Rahman.