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Over 100 aided PK Halder in scams
Most of them bank officials, his close associate tells court
File photo of PK Halder
Court Correspondent
Court Correspondent
PK Halder s close associate Sukumar Mridha told a Dhaka court that over 100 people, mostly bankers, had helped Halder execute financial scams.
Those people included a former chairman and a managing director of two private banks.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit yesterday directed all banks to freeze for one more month the accounts of 64 people, including PK Halder, who was the managing director of NRB Global Bank.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Ashek Imam recorded Sukumar s statement at his chamber after the latter was taken there on February 11 by Anti-Corruption Commission [ACC] Deputy Director Salahuddin, investigation officer of a money laundering case against PK Halder.
Over 100 influential people, including 2 former bank high-ups, helped PK Halder, claims close associate
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Sukumar Mridha, a close associate of PK Halder, has told a magistrate that more than a hundred influential people, including two former high officials of as many banks helped PK Halder in running the scam.
Metropolitan Magistrate Md Ashek Imam recorded Sukumar s statement after ACC Deputy Director Md Salahuddin, also the investigation officer of a money laundering case filed against PK Halder, produced him at the magistrate s chamber yesterday.
The magistrate ordered to send Sukumar to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj after recording his statement, an official of Anti-Corruption Commission told The Daily Star.
Money laundering: Now nephew of PK Halder’s lawyer remanded Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A Dhaka court today placed Ashim Kumar Mistry, nephew of PK Halder s lawyer Sukumar Mridha, on a three-day remand in a case filed over amassing and laundering Tk 20.7 crore.
Judge KM Emrul Kayesh of the Senior Special Judge s Court of Dhaka passed the order after Md Salahuddin, a deputy director of Anti-Corruption Commission and also investigation officer of the case, produced him with a three-day remand prayer.
In the remand prayer, the IO said Sukumar sent a huge amount of money, earned from different illegal means, to Ashim who lives in Pirojpur. With that money, Ashim bought over 3,000 decimals of land at different places in Pirojpur s Nazirpur.
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