An Indian special court on Tuesday sent notorious financial scammer Prashanta Kumar Halder and five of his associates to jail.
Better known as PK Halder, the scammer and his cohorts were produced before the Special CBI Court in Kolkata in the morning.
The court sent them to jail as the police did not seek their further remand.
The next date of hearing in the case will be held on June 21, according to media reports.
Earlier, the arrestees were remanded in two phases following their arrest by the Directorate of Enforcement (ED), under the Ministry of Finance of India, in West Bengal on May 13. The detectives seized fake passports, cash and important documents from their possessions.
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The ED told the court on Tuesday that they had found 88 bank accounts belonging to Halder and his associates. The agency also dug out wealth worth Tk300 crore owned by Halder and his associates in India, and seven luxury apartments in Malaysia.
The Bangladeshi authorities said they were working with the Indian authorities to bring back Halder, who is accused in around four dozen cases filed for embezzling thousands of crores of taka from banks and other financial institutions.
Many of his accomplices have already given confessional statements in court against Halder, a former managing director of NRB Global Bank and Reliance Finance Limited.
The Bangladesh Security and Exchange Commission (BSEC) recently ordered the seizure of all market shares belonging to PK Halder’s companies.
Halder mainly took control of four Bangladeshi companies – Bangladesh Industrial Finance Company (BIFC), International Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (ILFSL), FAS Finance and Investments Limited and Peoples Leasing and Financial Services – by buying shares anonymously.
