The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed three separate cases against 15 individuals, including S Alam Group Chairman Mohammad Saiful Alam and Proshanta Kumar Halder, former managing director of Reliance Finance Limited (now Aviva Finance), over the alleged embezzlement and laundering of approximately Tk 270 crore from non-bank financial institutions.
The depositors of the International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL) have urged the Bangladesh Bank to intervene so they can recover their money.
More than two and a half years after his arrest by India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case, Bangladeshi businessman Prashanta Kumar Halder, known as PK Halder, walked out of jail after a special court in Kolkata granted him bail.
We must rectify the system that protects money launderers
PK Halder was jailed for 10 years for illegally amassing money and 12 years for laundering money. He was also fined Tk 333 crore. The punishment of PK Halder will be effective from the day of his extradition from India, the court said.
Several big loan scams in the banking and financial sectors came to the fore in the last decade and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has done its job by filing cases. But, no progress is apparent.
The International Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (ILFSL) has taken initiatives to revive the four companies owned by PK Halder in order to recover its funds given out to them.
Proshanta Kumar Halder, aka PK Halder, is likely to be repatriated to Bangladesh by March next year.
A special court in Kolkata that deals with money laundering cases today (September 22, 2022) extended the judicial custody of Bangladeshi national and former NRB Bank MD PK Halder and five of his associates till November 17.
An Indian court today placed PK Halder on a 10-day remand in a money laundering case.
The High Court today set June 12 for hearing its suo muto (voluntary) rule over the government's move to arrest Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, on charge of money laundering.
The National Central Bureau (NCB), Interpol's regional office in Dhaka, has requested its Indian counterpart to extradite former NRB Global Bank managing director Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, and five others who have been arrested by India’s Directorate of Enforcement (ED).
Expressing satisfaction at the arrest of Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, in India on charge of laundering a huge sum of money, a High Court bench today (May 16, 2022) said the Indian government should be thanked for the arrest.
Prashanta Kumar Halder, better known as PK Halder, is the eldest of three sons of primary school teacher Lilabati Haldar and tailor Pralab Chandra Halder of Matibhanga union under Pirojpur’s Nazirpur upazila.
Officials of India’s Enforcement Directorate, probing the money laundering case against Proshanta Kumar Halder – better known as PK Halder – would ascertain if he took the help of local influentials to settle down in Ashoknagar, West Bengal, after sneaking in from Bangladesh.
Sustained interrogation of Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Harder – the arrested mastermind of Tk 10,000 crore banking scam in Bangladesh – by India’s Directorate of Enforcement has revealed that he possessed passports of Bangladesh, India and Grenada and that he allegedly siphoned off the money to various countries.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has said legal action will be taken against Prashanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder after receiving relevant documents officially.
Assets of former NRB Global Bank Managing Director (MD) Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder will be confiscated, Attorney General AM Amin Uddin has said.
Detectives of India’s Enforcement Directorate and other security agencies today began interrogating former NRB Global Bank MD PK Halder, a day after his arrest in connection with money laundering case against him.
