2 associates of PK Halder arrested
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested two female associates of fugitive businessman and former NRB Global Bank Managing Director Proshanta Kumar Halder alias PK Halder.
The arrestees are Sharmin Ahmed, 42 and Tania Ahmed, 37.
RAB’s Legal and Media Wing Director ASP Al Amin confirmed the matter to Jago News on Wednesday morning.
He said, the duo were trying to leave the country. RAB put them under surveillance for long.
The elite force’s media wing director Commander Khandaker Al Moen will brief about the matter at a press conference at its media centre this noon.
On May 14, India’s economic intelligence agency Directorate of Enforcement arrested PK Halder along with five others in Ashoknagar of the Indian state of West Bengal.
PK Halder and his other associates are accused in a multi-million financial fraud in Bangladesh. They have embezzled thousands of crores of Bangladeshi Taka and siphoned them off to India amongst other countries.
On March 1 last year, PK Halder fled Bangladesh through Jashore’s Benapole land port.
In January 2021, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed five cases against 33 people, including PK Halder, for allegedly laundering over Tk 350 crore of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited (ILFSL).
He had laundered about Tk 80 crore to Canada and amassed about Tk 426 crore beyond his known sources of income.
