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Sonali Bank sues 33 people
Sonali Bank has filed a new case against 33 people over the Hall-Mark group’s Tk 7-billion loan scam.
Published : 12 August 2014, 01:43 PM
Updated : 12 August 2014, 01:43 PM
The manager of the bank's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch, Md Abul Hossain, has filed the case in the Dhaka District Judge Court-1 on Tuesday for recovering a misappropriated sum of Tk 7.55 billion.
Plaintiff's lawyer Hosne Ara Begum said Hall-Mark Group's MD Tanvir Mahmud and the group's chairman, Jesmin Islam, had been made implicated in the case.
The court asked the accused to be present before it on August 28.
The lawyer also said, "Apart from the fresh case, hearings in 15 loan default cases are already on at the Dhaka Money Loan Court-1."
The other defendants in the case include Mir Zakaria, owner of the Hall-Mark group's paper company Max Spinning Mill, Hall-Mark Fashions Limited MD Tanvir Mahmud, Chairman Jesmin Islam, Sonali Bank's former Deputy General Manager AKM Azizur Rahman (temporarily suspended) and former Assistant General Manager of the bank Md Saiful Hassan (temporarily suspended).
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