PK Halder: ACC delayed travel ban to help him flee
Says High Court
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
The High Court has blamed the Anti-Corruption Commission for the failure to arrest PK Halder before he managed to flee the country.
It said the ACC helped Halder escape by making a delay of 13 hours in issuing a travel ban on him.
"By doing the delay, you have given him [Halder] the scope to leave the country " an HC bench told ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan during a hearing yesterday.
Proshanta Kumar Halder, also known as PK Halder, is accused of embezzling and laundering a huge amount of public money from some non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs). He fled the country on October 23, 2019.