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Hallmark Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud and his wife Jasmine Islam, the company's chairman, has been sentenced to life term imprisonment in one of the 11 cases related to Sonali Bank's loan corruption amounting to approximately Tk4,000 crore.
A Dhaka court Judge Md Abul Kashem of Dhaka's Special Judge Court 1 announced the verdict on Tuesday (18 March).
Apart from Tanvir and his wife, the accused in jail in the case include Hallmark General Manager Tushar Ahmed, former GM of Sonali Bank Head Office Mir Mohidur Rahman, Deputy General Manager (DGM) Md Safiuddin Ahmed, Deputy Managing Director (DMD) Mainul Haque, AGM Md Kamrul Hossain Khan and Md Abdul Malek of Nakshi Knit.
Among the absconding accused are Paragon Group MD Saiful Islam Raja, Sonali Bank Head Office GM Nani Gopal Nath, Head Office former managing director Humayun Kabir, Assistant Deputy General Manager Md Saiful Hasan, Executive Officer Abdul Matin, Max Spinning Mills owner Mir Zakaria, Director of T and Brothers Taslim Hasan and Senior Executive Officer of Sonali Bank Dhanmondi Branch Meherunnesa Mary.
Besides, Md Jamal Uddin Sarkar, the former chairman of Tetuljhora Union Parishad of Hemayetpur in Savar, is on bail.
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