Tk 1.25cr embezzlement: Ex-Sonali Bank MD among 8 get 17 yrs, another gets 8
A Dhaka court today sentenced seven former officials of Sonali Bank, including its former managing director, and two others to different jail terms in a case filed over embezzling of Tk 1.25 crore.
The convicts are Sonali Bank's former managing director Humayun Kabir, deputy managing director Mainul Haque, general manager Noni Gopal Nath, deputy general managers Sheikh Altaf Hossain, and Sofiz Uddin Ahmed, and assistant general managers Saiful Hasan and Kamrul Hossain Khan.
Two other convicts are Saiful Islam Raza, managing director of Paragon Knit Composite Ltd, a sister concern of Hallmark Group, and one of its directors Abdullah Al Mamun.
Of them, Humayun and seven others were sentenced to 17 years' rigorous imprisonment and fined them Tk 50,000 each, in default of which they will suffer three months more in jail.
Sheikh Altaf Hossain was sentenced to eight years' rigorous imprisonment and fined him Tk 50,000, in default of which he will have to serve three months more in jail.
Judge Mohammad Iqbal Hossain of the Special Judge's Court-5 of Dhaka handed down the sentence in presence of four convicts.
Mainul, Altaf, Sofiz Uddin, and Kamrul were present at the court, while five others, including Humayun were absent.
The judge fined them Tk 1,25,70,220 lakh, which they had misappropriated, to pay proportionately in favour of the state.
The punishment of fugitives will be effective from the day of their arrest or surrender, the judge said in his judgment.
According to the prosecution, it was alleged that the accused misappropriated Tk 1,25,70,220 of Sonali Bank through forgery.
Following the incident, ACC filed a case against Humayun Kabir and eight others with Ramna Police Station on January 1 of 2013.
The ACC pressed charges against them on May 22 of 2014. The court framed charges against them on April 6 of 2015.
On May 25 this year, the same court sentenced them 17 years jail in a case filed over embezzling of Tk 27.50 lakh.
Earlier, on December 27 last year, another Dhaka court sentenced Humayun and 10 others to different terms of prison for embezzling Tk 1.42 crore of Sonali Bank.
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