Investigators have found Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder’s involvement in fishy transactions worth about Tk 6,080 crore with different bank accounts of the country.

During the investigation of a case, the Anti-Corruption Commission found that Halder laundered about Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassed about Tk 426 crore beyond the known sources of income.

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On January 8 this year, the anti-graft body filed the case against Halder on charges of illegally amassing wealth.

Thirteen other people including Lilaboti Halder, Abantika Baral, Shankha Bepari, Sukumar Mridha, Anindita Mridha, Purnima Rani Halder, Uttam Kumar Mistri, Amitav Adhikari, Pritish Kumar Halder, Rajib Som, Subrata Das, Ananga Mohon Roy and Swapan Kumar Mistri stand accused in the case.

The ACC will file the chargesheet in the case soon, said ACC Secretary Anwar Hossain Howlader at a press briefing yesterday.

The investigation officer has submitted their findings and the Commission has approved the chargesheet, he said.

Anwar said Halder, former managing director of NRB Global Bank, created several fictitious companies. “About Tk 426 crore is found in his accounts and those of the fictitious companies,” he said.

In the investigation, the anti-graft watchdog also found the accused maintained 178 bank accounts in his and companies’ names.

“We’ve found abnormal transactions worth about Tk 6,076 crore in these accounts,” said ACC’s secretary.

PK Halder in collaboration with his brother Pritish Kumar Halder and 12 others laundered about CAD 11.7 million.

The money was first transferred to Singapore, the UAE and India and later to Canada, said Anwar.

The allegation of embezzlement against Halder surfaced after the ACC launched an enquiry into the wealth of illegal casino owners in 2019.

Earlier, the anti-graft watchdog filed 15 cases against 70 persons for misappropriating about Tk 1,132 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited.

In these cases, PK Halder has been made the prime accused.

He took loans from financial institutions against at least two dozen non-existent companies created by him.

In some cases, he used part of the funds to repay instalments of loans taken against his several fictitious firms.

PK Halder put his men at the helm of the financial institutions so that he could easily borrow and misappropriate the funds.



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Source: Trend Viral Philippines