ACC quizzes former Sonali Bank official

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday interrogated state-run Sonali Bank's former board director Saimum Sarwar Kamol, who allegedly took bribe from Hall-Mark Group to help the controversial group commit a loan scam.
Kamol was summoned as Hall-Mark Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud confessed that he (Kamol) received Tk 3 crore as bribe to help him (Tanvir) commit the scam. Kamol however denied taking any bribe from Hall-Mark Group, a source in the ACC said.
A six-member team led by ACC Deputy Director Mir Mohammad Zainul Abedin Shibli quizzed him for three and a half hours at ACC's Segunbagicha office in the capital.
On October 4 last year, the ACC filed 11 cases against 27 top officials of Sonali Bank and Hall-Mark Group for misappropriating over Tk 1,568 crore as loan.