Investigators have unearthed how the top brass of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) helped Prashanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, embezzle and launder about Tk 70 crore from the institution.
In one of the cases, Abed, Runai, and Rafsan were made accused.
According to the case statement, Halder laundered the money with the help of the accused people who were arrested yesterday.
Managing Director of Anan Chemical Amitav Adhikari and its four directors applied to then ILFSL MD Rashedul for a term loan of Tk 29 crore on October 14, 2015, reads the FIR.
ILFSL assistant manager Rafikul Islam had prepared the loan proposal without scrutiny. Senior manager Rafsan Riad Chowdhury of NBFI examined the proposal and its assistant vice president Al Mamun Sohel forwarded it.
The company s Head of Business Nahida Runai recommended sanctioning the loan. To put up the loan proposal before the board meeting, approval of then ILFSL MD was needed and Rashedul gave the nod, reads the FIR.
Tk 70.82 crore money laundering case: 3 close associates of PK Halder placed on 5-day remand
Nahida Runai, one of three close associates of PK Halder, is being taken to court on Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Photo: Emrul Hasan Bappi/Star Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A Dhaka court today placed three close associates of PK Halder on a five-day remand each in connection with a Tk 70.82 crore money laundering case.
The accused are International Leasing and Financial Services (ILFS) former Acting Managing Director Syed Abed Hasan, Vice-president Nahida Runai and Senior Manager Rafsan Riad Chowdhury.
Judge (in-charge) Rabiul Alam of the Senior Special Judge s Court of Dhaka passed the order after Anti-Corruption Commission Deputy Director Gulshan Anwar Pradhan, also investigation officer of the case, produced them before it with a five-day remand prayer this evening, ACC Public Prosecutor Mahmud Hossain Jahangir told The Daily Star.
PK Halder, His Aides: ACC files five more cases for Tk 350cr graft
Proshanta Kumar Halder. File photo Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed five cases against 33 people, including former NRB Global Bank managing director PK Halder, for allegedly laundering over Tk 350 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).
ACC Deputy Director Gulshan Anowar Prodhan filed the cases in the last two days.
Briefing reporters at the ACC s Segunbagicha headquarters yesterday, its Secretary Md Anwar Hossain Howlader said they have already arrested the former chairman of People s Leasing and Financial Services Limited (PLFSL), Uzzal Nandi, and former ILFSL MD Rashedul Haque in connection with the cases.