ACC slaps ban on foreign trip of 7 Farmers Bank officials
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has imposed a ban on the foreign travel of seven officials of The Farmers Bank Ltd over approving Tk 4 crore loan against fake documents and depositing the money into former Chief Justice SK Sinha's account.
ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya on Wednesday told UNB that a notice was sent to Superintendent of Police (Immigration) of Special Branch of Police in this regard.
The officials are former managing director and chief executive officer AKM Shameem, first vice-president Swapan Kumar Roy, senior executive vice-president Gazi Salauddin, vice-president M Lutful Haque, assistant vice-president Shafiuddin Askaree Ahmed, former SVP Ziauddin and executive officer Umme Salma Sultana, UNB reports.
Meanwhile, six of the seven officials were quizzed on Wednesday in this connection.
Earlier on May 6, ACC grilled two businessmen named -- Md Shahjahan and Niranjan Chadra Saha -- for allegedly taking Tk 4 crore in loan from The Farmers Bank Ltd using fake documents and depositing the money in the bank account of a VVIP.
