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He also urged the HC to ask the government to constitute a judicial commission to probe the irregularities in all the public and private banks.
Hearing on the petition might be held today.
Citing a newspaper report, Eunus in his petition said the Hall-Mark Group swindled Tk 2686.14 crore, T & Brothers Tk 609.69 crore, Paragon Group Tk 146.60 crore, Nakshi Knit Tk 66.36 crore, DN Sports Tk 33.25 crore and Khan Jahan Ali Tk 4.96 crore out of Hotel Ruposhi Bangla branch of the state-owned Sonali Bank.
The public money, noted the lawyer, has to be recovered in the interest of the people.
A functional audit of the Sonali Bank, however, found the swindled amount to beTk 3,606crore.
Earlier on September 11, three Supreme Court lawyers had filed another writ petition with the HC seeking its directive on the government to form a judicial commission to probe the loan scam involving the Sonali Bank and Hall-Mark Group.
ACC QUIZZES SONALI OFFICIALS
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday quizzed seven more officials of the Sonali Bank head office in connection with the Hall-Mark loan scam.
The officials are General Managers Mostafizur Rahman and Alif Hossain, Assistant General Manager Ejaj Ahmed, Senior Executive Officers Sohrab Hossain and Mukhlesur Rahman, Senior Officer Zasmin Nahar and Junior Officer Zillur Rahman.
All the officers denied their involvement in the loan scam.
Seeking anonymity, an ACC official said the probes into the incident carried out by the Bangladesh Bank and Sonali Bank found their involvement.
Talking to newsmen after facing the grilling, Senior Executive Officer Sohrab Hossain said, "Many high officials (of Sonali Bank] had close links with Hall-MarlcThey were frequently invited and entertained by thecompany."
Mostafizur Rahman, general manager of Sonali Bank, said he had never been to the Hall-Mark office.
The anti-graft body has so far quizzed 44 Sonali Bank and Hall-Mark officials in this connection.
NEW ACC COMMITTEE FORMED
The ACC yesterday formed a four-member committee to investigate alleged irregularities in the disbursement of loans by three branches of the Sonali Bank.
The branches are Agargaon, Gulshan and Local Office in the capital.
Benazir Ahmed, ACC deputy director, will head the probe committee.
According to newspaper reports, Green Printers' Chief Executive Officer Gautam Kumar Mitra pocketed Tk 53 crore from different private banks by selling inland letters of credit. The Agargaon branch had given acceptance to these bills.
The local office branch had disbursed a Tk 20 crore loan to a company before it cleared a previous loan of Tk 27.75 crore, said an ACC official.