A Dhaka court has issued arrest warrants against 10 people, including PK Halder, on charges of illegal acquisition of assets and laundering money abroad.
Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge KM Imrul Kayes passed the order on Sunday after accepting the charge sheet, reports Bangla Tribune.
The other accused in the arrest warrant are PK Halder’s mother Lilabati Halder, Purnima Rani Halder, Uttam Kumar Mistri, Amitabh Adhikari, Pritish Kumar Halder, Rajib Som, Subrata Das, Ananga Mohan Roy and Swapan Kumar Mistri.
The court accepted the charge sheet against 14 accused including PK Halder in the case, said Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Inspector Aminul Islam of the court.
On January 8, 2020, the ACC filed the case against PK Halder for acquiring and smuggling illegal assets worth Tk275 crore. The investigation of the case has so far received information about embezzlement and smuggling of around Tk3,000 crore.
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However, Prashanta Kumar Halder (PK Halder), the much-talked financial scammer of recent time, fled to Canada before the case was filed.
He is the former managing director of NRB Global Bank.
At the same time, he controlled four other financial institutions – International Leasing and Financial Services (ILFSL), People's Leasing and Financial Services, FAS Finance and Investment Limited and Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFC).
According to the ACC, PK Halder took money from the customers of these companies and embezzled it in the name of giving a loan to the company on paper and smuggled it abroad.
While searching for PK Halder, the ACC found 62 of his associates and has already filed dozens of cases against them.