Nine including ex-Sonali Bank MD get 17 yrs jail

A court in Dhaka on Wednesday sentenced former Sonali Bank managing director and eight others to 17 years' imprisonment each in two separate cases filed for swindling around Tk 27.50 lakh. 

Judge Md Iqbal Hossain of Dhaka Special Session Judge Court-5 handed down the verdict.

The convicts are Sonali Bank's former MD Humayun Kabir, deputy managing director Mainul Haque, general manager Noni Gopal Nath, deputy general managers Sheikh Altaf Hossain and Safiz Uddin Ahmed, assistant general managers Kamrul Hossain Khan and Saiful Hasan, and Paragon Knit Composite managing director Saiful Islam Raza and director Abdullah Al Mamun.

In the verdicts, they each were given 10 years in jail for embezzling money and fined Tk 27.50 lakh which they will pay equally. 

The court awarded them each seven years' imprisonment for forgery and in default, they will have to serve three months more in jail. 

The case statement said the Anti-Corruption Commission's deputy assistant director Mujibur Rahman lodged the cases with Ramna Police Station on January 1, 2023, for alleged embezzlement of about Tk 27.50 lakh.

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