The Anti-Corruption Commission will quiz more than 100 bankers from 61 branches of 27 banks in phases starting from next month as part of its investigations into Hall-Mark and five other companies’ loan scams, insiders say.
A probe by the central bank has already spotted irregularities in the dealings with the clients concerned of most of these branches of the 27 state-owned, private and foreign banks. The inquiry has also identified the officials who approved fake acceptance bills submitted by those companies, and thus got involved in the irregularities, BB officials said.
“The total number of the bankers involved in the irregularities in those branches will exceed one hundred,” said a BB official who has been through 61 reports prepared separately by the central bank on each of the branches.
The central bank did not find any irregularities in some of those branches but sent the names of their managers and heads of foreign exchange departments to the ACC in case the commission wanted to question them, the official added.
