Sonali Bank files another case against Hall-Mark

Sonali Bank today filed another case against Hall- Mark Group for taking Tk 226.43 crore in loan using fake documents.

Abdus Salam, executive officer of the state-run bank's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch, filed the case with the Artho Rin Adalat-1 (Money Loan Court) in Dhaka against Hall-Mark Chairperson Jasmine Islam and Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud.

Judge Md Robiuzzaman accepted the case but he could not fix any date for starting hearing on the charges.

Earlier on March 25, 27 and 30 and April 1 and 8, the bank filed 12 cases against Jasmine, Mahmud and 10 of their companies with the same court for taking Tk 327 crore in loan on forged documents.

Sonali started filing cases after it failed to get buyers for the mortgaged assets of Hall-Mark.

The Anti-Corruption Commission filed 11 cases against 27 persons of Hall-Mark and its lender Sonali Bank in October 2012 and pressed charges against 25 of them in October last year on money laundering allegation.