The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), quizzed former managing director of Farmers Bank, AKM Shamim, and five other officials of the bank as part of its investigation into Tk 40 million loan scam.

ACC began the interrogation at 10am on Wednesday (Sept 26) at the ACC office in the capital’s Segunbagicha.

In a notice served on Tuesday (Sept 25), the ACC ordered six officials of the bank to present themselves before the commission on Wednesday at 10am.

The others are executive officer, Umme Salma Sultana, Assistant Vice President, Shafiuddin Askari Ahmed, former manager, operations, and vice president, Md. Lutful Haque, former head of business and senior executive vice president, Gazi Salauddin and, first vice president, Swapan Kumar Roy.

The notice said the accused might be involved in forgery and deception by taking Tk40 million in loans from Farmers Bank Ltd using fake documents and depositing the money in the bank account of a VVIP, who are turned out to be former chief justice Sinha.
Businessmen Shahjahan and Niranjan Chandra Saha deposited the money. Their lawyers claimed the money was paid to Sinha after he sold his house.
The lawyers said Sinha sold his six-storey Uttara building to Tangail resident Shanti Roy in 2016. Shanti paid Tk20 million and asked her uncle Niranjan, and her husband's friend Shahjahan, to pay the rest of the money. Niranjan and Shahjahan then took loans of Tk20 million each from the Gulshan branch of Farmers Bank.

Both the businessmen were accused of taking loans from the bank using fake documents and depositing the money in the bank account of a VVIP – without mentioning any specific name.
ACC interrogated the two earlier this year.

The former MD and the other officials declined to make any comments after coming out from the interrogation.