Staff Correspondent,
bdnews24.com
Published: 25 Jan 2021 07:05 PM BdST
Updated: 25 Jan 2021 07:05 PM BdST
The Anti-Corruption Commission or ACC has started five cases against fugitive businessman Prashanta Kumar Halder and 32 others on charges embezzling Tk 3.51 billion in loans through five sham companies.
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ACC Secretary Muhd Anwar Hossain Howlader initiated the cases at the anti-graft agency’s Integrated District Office, Dhaka-1 on Monday.
“Officials and board members of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) abused their power and unethically breached trust to embezzle and launder money through a loan of Tk 3.51 billion in the name of five fake companies."
Apart from Proshanta along with a few of his relatives and associates, ILSFL's former chairman MA Hashem, former managing director Rashedul Haque, nine board members, and chairman of People’s Leasing and Financial Services Ltd or PLFSL Uzzal Kumar Nandi have been implicated in the cases.