2nd January, 2013
ACC files 26 cases against 35 officials of Sonali Bank, Hall-Mark and five other companies
The five firms and Hall-Mark swindled a total of Tk 3,547 crore from Sonali Bank's Ruposhi Bangla Hotel branch between October 2011 and May last year.
Of the amount, Hall-Mark alone got Tk 2,686 crore.
T & Brothers embezzled Tk 317.52 crore, Paragon Knit Composite Ltd Tk 13.58 crore, DN Sports Tk 2.81 crore, Nakshi Knit and Composite Ltd Tk 10.81 crore and Khanjahan Ali Sweater Ltd Tk 1.14 crore.
In the cases, Hall-Mark Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud and General Manager Tushar Ahmed face charges of abetting Paragon and Nakshi respectively. Both were detained earlier in connection with the scam.
"These were not loans,” ACC Deputy Director Mir Md Zainul Abedin Shibly told reporters at a press brief in ACC headquarters yesterday. “These were misappropriations through forged documents in collaboration with some bank officials.”
He said the swindlers prepared fake documents to open letter of credit and inland bill purchase and drew the money without doing any business.
The cases are dealing with the embezzlement of Tk 350.37 crore funded money or the portion disbursed in cash, Shibly added.
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I'm kind of tempted to think these clever 'swindlers' only showed us the way 'forward'. Soon we'll find doctors drawing blood from the patients that go to visit them, teachers raping and robbing students in lieu of some extra marks, lawyers, in the middle of the case, demanding bundles of money just to continue the case or work secretly against their own clients etc.
What we are facing now is the crises of trust and professional honesty. People are getting encouraged to exploit the system because:
1. They see before them all the high-ups succumbing to bribery and dishonesty of all kinds. They also witness political leaders striking deals that would harm the interest of the country but bring money to their pockets. They observe, from the kitchen market to the supermalls, goods and services being monopolized by companies and people who, in turn, had previously done the same with the government machinery.
2. They also understand that if a thief enters a house at the dead end of the night and steals 10 thousand taka, he can be found out, put to trial and sentenced to proper judgment in due course of time. But if a person manages to steal from a bank, in broad daylight, 2686 crore taka and spends 1% of his money, he can finally get away with the rest.
These two areas of thought are increasingly encouraging people to take up dishonest means, if not for living, then for just making money and joining the league of the rich and the wealthy.
What we have to do and what we need to do is unknown. Protests are not enough so it seems so far. Our political leaders are busy quarreling over the modus operandi of election. They are primarily and chiefly concerned with it because it is related to the question of going to 'power'. They don't have time or inclination to work for the interest of the people and the country. So that probably means that clearly they are not doing their job (working for the betterment of the country) and instead usurping the trust put on them by the people by:
1. Making fortunes through corruption of established and novel kinds.
2. Oppressing and suppressing other close contenders of 'power' so that they would be the only 'suitable' option for the next election.
3. Populating all key positions of the State machinery with their own supporters, sacrificing eligible candidacy and quality of manpower in the statecraft, so that with or without being in 'power', they can still benefit from it and continue to reap the harvest.
Clearly, this is the game-plan.
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