The cases were filed with Motijheel and Kotwali police stations on December 28 and 29 for misappropriating the money in fake names and organisations, said an ACC press release yesterday.

Following news items published in different dailies on the scam, the ACC made partial enquiry into the matter and filed the cases, said the release adding that several cases are in process to be filed.

The other accused bankers are -- Imamul Huq, former deputy managing director, Fazlur Rahman, assistant vice president (AVP), Kamrul Islam, executive vice president (EVP), Shah Mohammad Harun, senior VP, Abul Kashem Mahmud Ullah, senior assistant VP (SAVP), Mohiuddin Ahmed, AVP, Mahmud Hossain, senior executive VP (SEVP), Touhid Uddin Khandakar, senior officer of Bangshal Branch, Syed Mahmud Hassan, AVP of the same branch, Tarikul Alam and Jahir Hossain, executive officers of principal branch, ANM Asiful Rahman, SAVP and former manager of the Bangshal branch and Arif Kadri, former SEVP, now working at One Bank.

The bank authorities suspended some of the officials and dismissed a few others, while Asiful Rahman, one of the prime accused, left the country immediately after the scam was disclosed, sources in the bank said.

ACC said it found 27 fake names and organisations with the bank's principal branch, which sent the loan applications to its main office. After the credit committee of the bank sanctioned the loan totalling around Tk 27 crore, the accused embezzled it.

The name of the fake organisations are -- Noor & Sons, Anwar Electronics, Evan Tel, Ibrahim Khalil, ZU Trading, Modern Builders, Latif Engineering, Mamtaz Enterprise, Noshin Enterprise, Afaz Uddin Traders, Cyber Telelink, Noor Machinery, Ali and Ali Company, Super Metal Works, Alam Traders, City Com, Bakar Hossain, Abdus Salam, Meghna Traders, Rahmat Ullah, Sarwar Morshed, Mohammad Salauddin, Abul Hossain, Tanvir Agency, Janata Enterprise, Bellal Hossain and Sarfad Traders.

Four deputy directors (DD) of the ACC filed 27 cases with Motijheel Police Station on December 29 in this connection.

The ACC also found similar irregularities with the bank's Bangshal branch, from where the accused misappropriated about Tk 4.18 crore through a fake organisation, Bionic International. A case was filed with Kotwali Police Station in this connection on December 29.

Besides, the branch's officials also embezzled Tk 2.12 crore in connivance with one Sanwar Hossain, by letting him use the accounts of Abid Traders, which was unauthorised and illegal, the release said.

Another case was filed with the Kotwali Police Station the same day.